Betel Leaves

Water

Rain falls about 11 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 1,550 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 1,030 mm it can use in a normal year, and 920 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 31 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 30 °C / 24 °C
• Aug 30 °C / 24 °C
• Sep 31 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• Oct 31 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 31 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 32 °C / 23 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 32 °C / 23 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 33 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 34 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Apr 34 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• May 33 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 31 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Betel Leaves: 8 out of 10 (good).

Not in the score: nitrogen.

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

Likes pH 5.0–5.6.

Money

Yield: about 155 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 (December 2024, November 2025): about ₹6,488 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 December.

Typical costs are about ₹9.9 lakh an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.