Betel Leaves

Water

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

Needs about 1,870 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 480 mm it can use in a normal year, and 340 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 36 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 31 °C / 23 °C
• Aug 30 °C / 23 °C
• Sep 30 °C / 22 °C
• Oct 31 °C / 21 °C
• Nov 30 °C / 17 °C
• Dec 29 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 30 °C / 15 °C
• Feb 33 °C / 17 °C
• Mar 36 °C / 21 °C (outside its best range)
• Apr 39 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• May 41 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 36 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Days in March 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.
• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.
• Most fields here are short of zinc.

Likes pH 5.0–5.6.

Money

Yield: about 87 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).

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 2025–November 2026): about ₹15,000 a quintal across India's mandis.

This week: about ₹7,750 a quintal, the middle of 6 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov).

Prices are usually best in March.

Typical costs are about ₹5.6 lakh an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.