Betel Leaves

Water

Rain falls about 9 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 1,110 mm it can use in a normal year, and 1,050 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 (outside its best range)
• 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 31 °C / 23 °C
• Jan 32 °C / 23 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 32 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 33 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Apr 33 °C / 25 °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.
• Most fields here are short of boron.

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).

On rain alone it gets about 72% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 72% of this yield.

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). At that price an acre would lose about ₹1.4 lakh a year at typical costs.

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.