Betel Leaves

Water

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

Needs about 1,630 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 590 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 34 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 30 °C / 23 °C
• Aug 29 °C / 23 °C
• Sep 30 °C / 23 °C
• Oct 29 °C / 20 °C
• Nov 27 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 24 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 24 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 28 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 32 °C / 18 °C
• Apr 37 °C / 22 °C (outside its best range)
• May 38 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 34 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Days in April get hotter than it likes. Young plants need shade and water then.

Soil

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

• Soil here is often more alkaline than it likes.

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.