Betel Leaves

Water

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

Needs about 1,580 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 400 mm it can use in a normal year, and 350 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 / 28 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 31 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 30 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Sep 31 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Oct 34 °C / 23 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 34 °C / 20 °C
• Dec 30 °C / 16 °C
• Jan 28 °C / 15 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 30 °C / 16 °C
• Mar 32 °C / 20 °C
• Apr 34 °C / 23 °C (outside its best range)
• May 34 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 34 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

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

• Soil here is often too alkaline for it.
• Salt in the soil here can harm 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.