Betel Leaves

Water

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

Needs about 1,400 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 660 mm it can use in a normal year, and 590 mm in a dry year.

Temperature

Grows best at 22–27 °C on average, and survives 17–31 °C.

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

• Jun 35 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 30 °C / 23 °C
• Aug 29 °C / 23 °C
• Sep 29 °C / 21 °C
• Oct 27 °C / 17 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 23 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 19 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 16 °C / 6 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 20 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 25 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
• Apr 31 °C / 18 °C
• May 35 °C / 23 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 35 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)

Nights in January can bring frost. When frost is forecast, water the field lightly in the evening.

Soil

Soil for Betel Leaves: 7 out of 10 (okay).

Not in the score: nitrogen, organic carbon, sulphur and boron.

• Soil here is often too alkaline for it.

Likes pH 5.0–5.6.

Money

Yield: about 87 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).

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 through the year (December 2025–November 2026): about ₹15,000 a quintal across India's mandis.

This week: about ₹7,750 a quintal, the middle of 6 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov).

Prices are usually best in March.

Typical costs are about ₹5.6 lakh an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.