Betel Leaves

Water

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

Needs about 1,440 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 760 mm it can use in a normal year, and 640 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 26 °C / 20 °C
• Jul 24 °C / 19 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 25 °C / 19 °C
• Sep 26 °C / 19 °C
• Oct 27 °C / 19 °C
• Nov 27 °C / 19 °C
• Dec 27 °C / 17 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 27 °C / 17 °C
• Feb 29 °C / 18 °C
• Mar 30 °C / 20 °C
• Apr 30 °C / 21 °C
• May 29 °C / 21 °C
• Jun 26 °C / 20 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

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

Not in the score: nitrogen and sulphur.

• 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.