Green Chillies

Water

Too dry to grow on rain alone. It would need irrigation.

Needs about 760 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 100 mm it can use in a normal year, and 70 mm in a dry year.

Temperature

Grows best at 17–30 °C on average, and survives 8–35 °C.

Here, in its growing months (day / night):

• Jun 42 °C / 29 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 39 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 37 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Sep 37 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Oct 36 °C / 20 °C
• Nov 31 °C / 12 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Days in June get hotter than it likes. Time sowing so it flowers before then.

Soil

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

Not in the score: nitrogen, sulphur and boron.

• The pH here suits it.
• Most fields here are short of organic carbon.
• Most fields here are short of zinc.
• Most fields here are short of iron.

Likes pH 5.5–6.8.

Money

Yield: about 13 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).

Rain gives it too little of the water it needs, so there's no income figure on rain alone: grow it only with irrigation.

Mandi price at last season's harvest (December 2025): about ₹2,400 a quintal at mandis in your district.

This week: about ₹2,500 a quintal, the middle of 9 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov).

Prices are usually best in March.

Typical costs are about ₹23,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.