Green Chillies

Water

Rain is enough in a normal year. Keep one irrigation ready for a dry year.

Needs about 340 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 130 mm it can use in a normal year (70 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):

• Oct 31 °C / 17 °C
• Nov 26 °C / 11 °C
• Dec 20 °C / 6 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 18 °C / 5 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 21 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 27 °C / 14 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Nights in December 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.
• Most fields here are short of organic carbon.

Likes pH 5.5–6.8.

Money

Yield: about 38 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).

Mandi price at last season's harvest (March–April 2026): about ₹5,300 a quintal at mandis in your district.

Prices are usually best in February.

Typical costs are about ₹80,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.