Betel Leaves

Water

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

Needs about 1,890 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 520 mm it can use in a normal year, and 480 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 39 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 31 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 30 °C / 23 °C
• Sep 31 °C / 23 °C
• Oct 34 °C / 19 °C
• Nov 31 °C / 15 °C
• Dec 27 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 26 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 30 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 35 °C / 18 °C
• Apr 41 °C / 23 °C (outside its best range)
• May 43 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 39 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)

Days in June 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.
• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.

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.