Betel Leaves

Water

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

Needs about 1,530 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 690 mm it can use in a normal year, and 630 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 31 °C / 23 °C
• Jul 27 °C / 21 °C
• Aug 27 °C / 21 °C
• Sep 28 °C / 21 °C
• Oct 27 °C / 20 °C
• Nov 26 °C / 16 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 25 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 26 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 29 °C / 15 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 31 °C / 19 °C
• Apr 33 °C / 21 °C
• May 34 °C / 23 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 31 °C / 23 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Betel Leaves: 6 out of 10 (okay).

• 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 zinc.
• Most fields here are short of boron.

Likes pH 5.0–5.6.

Money

Yield: about 57 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 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 ₹3.7 lakh an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.