Betel Leaves

Water

Rain falls about 6 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 1,210 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 930 mm it can use in a normal year, and 860 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 26 °C / 20 °C
• Jul 26 °C / 21 °C
• Aug 27 °C / 21 °C
• Sep 26 °C / 20 °C
• Oct 25 °C / 18 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 23 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 20 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 18 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 21 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 24 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
• Apr 26 °C / 17 °C (outside its best range)
• May 26 °C / 19 °C
• Jun 26 °C / 20 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

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

• Soil here is often more alkaline than it likes.
• Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.
• 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 77% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 77% of this yield.

Mandi price through the year (December 2025–November 2026): about ₹22,750 a quintal across mandis in your state.

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 ₹17,000 a year at typical costs.

Prices are usually best in April.

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.