Green Chillies

Water

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

Needs about 470 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 140 mm it can use in a normal year (80 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 200 mm from the monsoon at sowing.

Temperature

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

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

• Nov 29 °C / 16 °C
• Dec 26 °C / 11 °C
• Jan 25 °C / 10 °C
• Feb 26 °C / 13 °C
• Mar 28 °C / 17 °C
• Apr 30 °C / 20 °C

Soil

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

• The pH here suits it, though not most crops.
• Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of boron.

Likes pH 5.5–6.8.

Money

Yield: about 45 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).

On rain alone it gets about 71% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 71% of this yield.

Mandi price at last season's harvest (April–May 2026): about ₹3,525 a quintal across mandis in your state.

Prices are usually best in October.

Typical costs are about ₹77,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.