Green Chillies

Water

Rain is enough, even in a dry year.

Needs about 560 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 780 mm it can use in a normal year, and 630 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 35 °C / 24 °C
• Jul 29 °C / 22 °C
• Aug 28 °C / 22 °C
• Sep 29 °C / 21 °C
• Oct 30 °C / 17 °C
• Nov 28 °C / 12 °C

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.
• Most fields here are short of boron.

Likes pH 5.5–6.8.

Money

Yield: about 64 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).

Mandi price at this season's harvest so far (November 2026): about ₹2,500 a quintal across mandis in your state.

This week: about ₹2,428 a quintal, the middle of 39 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹46,000 a season after typical costs.

Prices are usually best in February.

Typical costs are about ₹1.1 lakh an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.