Green Chillies

Water

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

Needs about 530 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 410 mm it can use in a normal year, and 310 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 34 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 33 °C / 26 °C
• Sep 33 °C / 24 °C
• Oct 32 °C / 18 °C
• Nov 27 °C / 12 °C
• Dec 22 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Likes pH 5.5–6.8. We have no pH figures for this place.

Money

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

On rain alone it gets about 77% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 77% of this yield.

Mandi price at last season's harvest (December 2025–January 2026): about ₹3,700 a quintal at mandis in your district.

Prices are usually best in March.

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.