Green Chillies

Water

Rain is enough, even in a dry year.

Needs about 530 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 1,100 mm it can use in a normal year, and 720 mm in a dry year.

Heavy rain here can waterlog it. Grow it on raised beds or land that drains well.

Temperature

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

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

• Jun 30 °C / 18 °C
• Jul 27 °C / 18 °C
• Aug 27 °C / 18 °C
• Sep 26 °C / 17 °C
• Oct 25 °C / 13 °C
• Nov 20 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

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 across India (no figures for your state).

Mandi price at last season's harvest (December 2025): about ₹2,100 a quintal across mandis in your state.

This week: about ₹2,000 a quintal, the middle of 11 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹13,000 a season after typical costs.

Prices are usually best in March.

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.