ABSTRACT
Capsicum native to South and Central America, Mexico and the West Indies continue to be cultivated there and have been introduced, and is now widely cultivated throughout temperate, subtropical Europe, the Southern US, tropical Africa, India, East Africa and China. Indian chillies are medium to highly pungent, while African chillies are the hottest ones. The cultivation practices of chilli in different countries vary greatly, and the typical practices followed in India as reported by Govindarajan (1985) are given below.
