Betel Leaves

Water

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

Needs about 1,240 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 470 mm it can use in a normal year, and 350 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 28 °C / 16 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 29 °C / 18 °C
• Aug 28 °C / 17 °C
• Sep 27 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
• Oct 23 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 17 °C / 2 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 10 °C / -2 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 7 °C / -3 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 10 °C / 0 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 16 °C / 4 °C (outside its best range)
• Apr 21 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
• May 25 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 28 °C / 16 °C (outside its best range)

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

Soil

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

• Soil here is often too alkaline for it.
• Most fields here are short of zinc.
• Most fields here are short of iron.

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.