Green Chillies

Water

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

Needs about 330 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 260 mm it can use in a normal year (130 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 23 °C / 15 °C
• Nov 21 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 18 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 16 °C / 6 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 19 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 22 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Nights in January can bring frost. When frost is forecast, water the field lightly in the evening.

Soil

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

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

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 (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.