Betel Leaves

Water

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

Needs about 1,310 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 620 mm it can use in a normal year, and 540 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 31 °C / 21 °C
• Jul 28 °C / 21 °C
• Aug 27 °C / 20 °C
• Sep 27 °C / 19 °C
• Oct 25 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 21 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 17 °C / 6 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 15 °C / 4 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 18 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 23 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
• Apr 28 °C / 16 °C
• May 31 °C / 19 °C
• Jun 31 °C / 21 °C

Nights in December 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: organic carbon, sulphur, manganese 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.