Betel Leaves

Water

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

Needs about 1,800 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 310 mm it can use in a normal year, and 260 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 39 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 34 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 32 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Sep 33 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• Oct 35 °C / 19 °C
• Nov 31 °C / 14 °C
• Dec 26 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 24 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 28 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 33 °C / 17 °C
• Apr 38 °C / 23 °C (outside its best range)
• May 41 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 39 °C / 28 °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: 6 out of 10 (okay).

Not in the score: nitrogen and boron.

• Soil here is often too alkaline for it.
• Most fields here are short of organic carbon.

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.