Green Chili Cultivation - 2

Transplanting

An old traditional way of  chili cultivation was transplanting. Generally chili seeds are grown in pots or nurseries and when they germinate, they are transferred to the fields. This method has lots of advantages, but today most of the commercial chili farmers in the world directly use seed beds in the fields.

Advantages of transplanting

• It guarantees a well-distributed standards of plants
• Reduces seed and thinning costs
• Requires less cultivation effort and irrigation

Harvested Green Chili

Harvesting

Chili plants take relatively less time to mature and make fruits and flowers. However the time depends on variety and the environmental conditions. 

You can harvest the first green chilies once they reach the full size. Or you should wait until they turn red, or whatever colour they are supposed to turn. If you plan to dry them for chili powder or flakes, you can even leave them until they dry.

To harvest fresh chilies kindly cut or pull off the mature fruit while it's still shiny and plump. The chili will last in a sealed bag or in a fridge up to a week.

In order to conserve the chili, you can dry them in a dryer or under direct sunlight and pound them to flakes or put it in the blender to make chili powder.

Varieties of chili

In this present world economic market, we see the many improved varieties of chili. Here is a list of some famous chili varieties across the world.

•          Naga Chilli
•          Mundu Chilli
•          Kanthari Chilli
•          Byadagi Chilli
•          Green Cayenne
•          Red Cayenne
•          Yellow Cayenne
•          Kashmiri Chilli
•          Red Ball
•          Guntur Chilli
•          Bird’s Eye Chilli
•          Dhani
•          Green Ball
•          Birdseye
•          Jalapeno

There may be other varieties of chili which are popular in your respective continent or country, this is because of  the climate and atmosphere conditions.

World market price

Normally in most of the countries fresh chili price go up and down with the weather pattern and some other reasons. however the prices of chili products like, chili powder and chili flakes do not change much. 

Normally dried chili price vary between 1000 - 3500 USD per ton. relatively chili powder price is higher than this and fresh chili even higher. Most of the middle east countries import chili from Asian region and hence there is a good and stable market for all kind of chili products. 

Since chili has less harvesting time, you can recover your investment within a short period by selling your yield. It is advisable to sell free chili or value added chili products like chili source, chili powder, etc to get high return from your investment. you can find many buyers from online platforms like "Alibaba" and "Indiamart". However be careful when you are trading through these online platforms. 


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