Green Chillies

Water

Rain is enough, even in a dry year.

Needs about 480 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 750 mm it can use in a normal year, and 640 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 27 °C / 14 °C
• Jul 24 °C / 15 °C
• Aug 24 °C / 15 °C
• Sep 24 °C / 14 °C
• Oct 21 °C / 10 °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: 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.