Green Chillies

Water

Rain falls about 4 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 350 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 170 mm it can use in a normal year, and 120 mm in a dry year.

Temperature

Grows best at 17–30 °C on average, and survives 8–35 °C.

Here, in its growing months (day / night):

• Jul 22 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 21 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
• Sep 19 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Oct 16 °C / 4 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 9 °C / -1 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 3 °C / -7 °C (outside its best range)

Nights in October can bring frost. When frost is forecast, water the field lightly in the evening.

Soil

Soil for Green Chillies: 9 out of 10 (good).

• The pH here suits it.
• Many fields here are short of nitrogen, which it needs a lot.

Likes pH 5.5–6.8.

Money

Yield: about 45 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).

Rain gives it too little of the water it needs, so there's no income figure on rain alone: grow it only with irrigation.

Mandi price at last season's harvest (December 2025–January 2026): about ₹6,063 a quintal across mandis in your state.

Prices are usually best in February.

Typical costs are about ₹75,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.