Chillies (Dry)
Sow in October, harvest around March
Still sowing time: sow by the end of November.
Grown on 197 acres here. Priced from mandis across your state.
Only with irrigation: rain gives too little of its water to count on
- Doesn't suit: Too dry without irrigation
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Suits: Soil 10/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Too dry to grow on rain alone. It would need irrigation.
Needs about 610 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 0 mm it can use in a normal year (0 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 150 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 35 °C / 21 °C
- Nov 32 °C / 16 °C
- Dec 29 °C / 13 °C
- Jan 27 °C / 11 °C
- Feb 31 °C / 14 °C
- Mar 36 °C / 19 °C
Soil
Soil for Chillies (Dry): 10 out of 10 (good).
Not in the score: nitrogen and boron.
- The pH here suits it.
Likes pH 6.0–7.5.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 7.8 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (your district's own figure looked wrong).
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 (March–April 2026): about ₹9,713 a quintal across mandis in your state.
This week: about ₹17,550 a quintal, the middle of 39 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov).
- ₹12,500 2021
- ₹14,430 2022
- ₹20,130 2023
- ₹18,750 2024
- ₹13,280 2025
Prices are usually best in November.
Typical costs are about ₹1.1 lakh an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.