Betel Leaves

Water

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

Needs about 1,620 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 850 mm it can use in a normal year, and 730 mm in a dry year.

Heavy rain here can waterlog it. Grow it on raised beds or land that drains well.

Temperature

Grows best at 22–27 °C on average, and survives 17–31 °C.

Here, in its growing months (day / night):

• Jun 30 °C / 24 °C
• Jul 29 °C / 23 °C
• Aug 29 °C / 24 °C
• Sep 30 °C / 23 °C
• Oct 31 °C / 23 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 32 °C / 22 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 32 °C / 21 °C
• Jan 32 °C / 20 °C
• Feb 33 °C / 21 °C
• Mar 34 °C / 23 °C (outside its best range)
• Apr 35 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• May 34 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 30 °C / 24 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Betel Leaves: 7 out of 10 (okay).

Not in the score: pH.

• Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.
• Most fields here are short of boron.

Likes pH 5.0–5.6. We have no pH figures for this place.

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.