Betel Leaves

Water

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

Needs about 1,760 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 310 mm it can use in a normal year, and 190 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 33 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 31 °C / 23 °C
• Aug 31 °C / 23 °C
• Sep 31 °C / 23 °C
• Oct 30 °C / 22 °C
• Nov 30 °C / 20 °C
• Dec 30 °C / 18 °C
• Jan 30 °C / 18 °C
• Feb 33 °C / 19 °C
• Mar 36 °C / 22 °C (outside its best range)
• Apr 37 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• May 37 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 33 °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: 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 iron.
• Most fields here are short of boron.

Likes pH 5.0–5.6.

Money

Yield: about 33 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 (January–February 2026, May 2026, July–November 2026): about ₹4,000 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 are usually best in January.

Typical costs are about ₹2.1 lakh an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.