Betel Leaves

Water

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

Needs about 1,430 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 750 mm it can use in a normal year, and 640 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 36 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 32 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 31 °C / 23 °C
• Sep 30 °C / 22 °C
• Oct 28 °C / 17 °C
• Nov 24 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 19 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 17 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 21 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 26 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
• Apr 31 °C / 19 °C
• May 36 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 36 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)

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

Days in June get hotter than it likes. Young plants need shade and water then.

Soil

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

• 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.