Betel Leaves

Water

Rain falls about 12 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 1,540 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 940 mm it can use in a normal year, and 870 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 32 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 31 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 32 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Sep 32 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Oct 31 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 29 °C / 19 °C
• Dec 26 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 25 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 29 °C / 15 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 32 °C / 19 °C
• Apr 33 °C / 23 °C (outside its best range)
• May 33 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 32 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Betel Leaves: 8 out of 10 (good).

• The pH here suits it, though not most crops.
• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.
• Most fields here are short of organic carbon.

Likes pH 5.0–5.6.

Money

Yield: about 54 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).

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 ₹3.5 lakh an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.