Betel Leaves

Water

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

Needs about 1,600 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 690 mm it can use in a normal year, and 610 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 / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 31 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 31 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Sep 31 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Oct 31 °C / 23 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 29 °C / 18 °C
• Dec 27 °C / 15 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 28 °C / 15 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 30 °C / 18 °C
• Mar 33 °C / 22 °C (outside its best range)
• Apr 35 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• May 36 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 34 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

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

Soil

Soil for Betel Leaves: 6 out of 10 (okay).

• Soil here is often too alkaline for it.
• Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of zinc.

Likes pH 5.0–5.6.

Money

Yield: about 61 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 (June–November 2025, April–May 2026): about ₹7,250 a quintal across mandis in your state.

This week: about ₹7,750 a quintal, the middle of 6 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov).

Prices swing a lot from year to year, so income can be well above or below this range.

Prices are usually best in April.

Typical costs are about ₹3.9 lakh an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.