Green Chillies

Water

Rain falls about 3 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 450 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 330 mm it can use in a normal year, and 250 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):

• Jun 27 °C / 17 °C
• Jul 24 °C / 17 °C
• Aug 24 °C / 17 °C
• Sep 23 °C / 15 °C
• Oct 21 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 17 °C / 6 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

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

Soil

Soil for Green Chillies: 8 out of 10 (good).

Not in the score: sulphur and boron.

• 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).

On rain alone it gets about 72% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 72% of this yield.

Mandi price at last season's harvest (December 2025): about ₹6,000 a quintal at mandis in your district.

This week: about ₹7,100 a quintal, the middle of 2 mandis in your district (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹1.5 lakh a season after typical costs.

Prices are usually best in February.

Typical costs are about ₹77,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.