Green Chillies
Sow in October, harvest around March
Still sowing time: sow by the end of November.
No figures for your district: its government crop records list no area or yield for this crop. Priced from mandis across your state.
₹3.0 lakh–₹4.5 lakh
per acre a season, before costs
After typical costs: ₹2.0 lakh–₹3.5 lakh an acre a season
- Needs care: Risky: 2 irrigations short
- Needs care: Cool in December
- Suits: Soil 9/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain falls about 2 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.
Needs about 390 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 100 mm it can use in a normal year (50 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 26 °C / 18 °C
- Nov 24 °C / 13 °C
- Dec 21 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 20 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 22 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 25 °C / 13 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Green Chillies: 9 out of 10 (good).
- The pH here suits it, though not most crops.
Likes pH 5.5–6.8.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 45 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).
On rain alone it gets about 76% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 76% of this yield.
Mandi price at last season's harvest (March 2026): about ₹10,750 a quintal across mandis in your state.
Prices are usually best in March.
Typical costs are about ₹95,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.