This document provides information about cultivating chilli peppers. It discusses that chillies grow best in warm, humid climates and prefer loamy to clay loam soil with a pH between 5.5-6.5. Nurseries should use raised beds and sow seeds 4 meters apart for 1 ropani of land, using fertilizers. Chillies are planted as a summer crop in hills and winter crop in terai regions of Nepal. Proper cultivation practices include transplanting seedlings at specific spacings based on variety, applying manure and fertilizers, weeding, irrigating, and manually harvesting multiple times for a yield of 400-600 kg of fresh chillies per ropani.

1. Cultivation of chilli
Prepared by Bishwas kafle

2. Introduction
• S.N- capsicum annum
• family: solanaceae
• It is hot due to presence
of capsaicin and
capsicutin
• Rich in vitamin A and C
• Used as spice crop

3. Climate and soil
Climate and soil :
It is crop of warm and humid area hence
cultivated as summer crop in high hill and
winter crop in terai. The optimum
temperature is 20-250
c
Soil: well fertile ,rich in organic matter loamy to
clay loam soil of pH 5.5-6.5

4. Nursery raising
Raised bed( 15 cm height) of 1m width and any
convenient length
Seed should be sown in 10 cm distance in
depth of 1-2 cm
4 m2 area is needed for 1 ropani of land
8 kg FYM, 80 gm DAP and 25 gm MOP should
be used
Straw can be used as mulching material
Light irrigation till germination
Ready to uproot at 5-6 leaf stage

5. Cultivation practices
Field preparation:
Seed rate : 4000 seedlings/ropani
Spacing: dwarf variety: 45 * 20-30 cm
tall variety :60 * 30 cm
Seed sowing and harvesting time:
region Seed sowing transplanting harvesting
terai Shrawan-bhadra Bhadra-asoj Mangsir-falgun
hill Magh-falgun Falgun-chaitra Asar.bhadra

6. Contd….
Manuring and fertilizer :
1000 kg FYM , 3:2:2 kg NPK per ropani
N should be top dressed in 25-30 DAT and 40-
50 DAT
Irrigation : 7-8 light irrigation at interval of 10-12
days.
Weeding : weeding together with earthing up is
done at 20-25 DAT and 45-50 DAT
Harvesting : manual harvesting is done no. of
times for complete harvest
Yield : 400-600 kg/ropani fresh fruit

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