Betel Leaves

Water

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

Needs about 1,840 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 580 mm it can use in a normal year, and 540 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 38 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 31 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 30 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• Sep 31 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• Oct 32 °C / 21 °C
• Nov 30 °C / 15 °C
• Dec 28 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 28 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 31 °C / 15 °C
• Mar 36 °C / 20 °C (outside its best range)
• Apr 40 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• May 43 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 38 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)

Days in June get hotter than it likes. Young plants need shade and water then.

Soil

Soil for Betel Leaves: 5 out of 10 (poor).

• Soil here is often too alkaline for it.
• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.
• Most fields here are short of phosphorus.

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.