Betel Leaves

Water

Rain falls about 9 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 1,450 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 1,020 mm it can use in a normal year, and 940 mm in a dry year.

Heavy rain here can waterlog it. Grow it on raised beds or land that drains well.

Temperature

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

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

• Jun 31 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 31 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 31 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Sep 31 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Oct 31 °C / 23 °C
• Nov 28 °C / 17 °C
• Dec 25 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 24 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 27 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 31 °C / 18 °C
• Apr 32 °C / 22 °C
• May 32 °C / 23 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 31 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

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

Not in the score: sulphur.

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

Likes pH 5.0–5.6.

Money

Yield: about 36 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).

On rain alone it gets about 70% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 70% of this yield.

Mandi price through the year (March 2026, May–November 2026): about ₹17,500 a quintal at mandis in your district.

This week: about ₹7,750 a quintal, the middle of 6 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would lose about ₹35,000 a year at typical costs.

Prices are usually best in March.

Typical costs are about ₹2.3 lakh an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.