Green Chillies

Water

Rain is enough, even in a dry year.

Needs about 520 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 1,380 mm it can use in a normal year, and 1,040 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 31 °C / 24 °C
• Jul 31 °C / 25 °C
• Aug 31 °C / 25 °C
• Sep 31 °C / 25 °C
• Oct 30 °C / 22 °C
• Nov 28 °C / 18 °C

Soil

Soil for Green Chillies: 8 out of 10 (good).

Not in the score: sulphur.

• The pH here suits it.
• Many fields here are short of nitrogen, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of zinc.
• Most fields here are short of boron.

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 this season's harvest so far (November 2026): about ₹8,500 a quintal across mandis in your state.

This week: about ₹8,300 a quintal, the middle of 3 mandis in your state (latest 11 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹3.0 lakh 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.