?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Foar.icrisat.org%2F6812%2F&rft.title=Pulses+Production+Scenario%3A+Policy+and+Technological+Options(Policy+Brief+No.+26)+&rft.creator=Reddy%2C+A+A&rft.creator=Bantilan%2C+M+C+S&rft.creator=Mohan%2C+G&rft.subject=Agriculture-Farming%2C+Production%2C+Technology%2C+Economics&rft.description=Historically%2C+India+is+the+largest+producer%2C+consumer%0D%0Aand+importer+of+pulses.+Although+it+is+the+world%E2%80%99s%0D%0Alargest+pulses+producer%2C+there+is+still+a+huge+shortage%0D%0Aof+pulses+and+also%2C+the+prices+are+not+affordable+to%0D%0Aa+large+section+of+consumers.+An+immediate+need%0D%0Ais+the+development+and+dissemination+of+low-cost%0D%0Atechnologies+in+pulses+production%2C+so+that+they+can%0D%0Abe+affordable+to+the+common+man.+Even+though%0D%0Apulses+production+increased+by+3.35%25+per+annum%0D%0Aduring+the+last+decade%2C+the+cost+of+production+and%0D%0Aconsequent+prices+are+too+high+to+be+affordable+to+the%0D%0Acommon+man%3B+to+increase+production+at+lower+cost%0D%0Ais+a+bigger+challenge.+The+earlier+experience+shows%0D%0Athat+technological+efforts+need+to+be+supported+by%0D%0Athe+right+policy+environment+to+harvest+fruits+of+R%26D%0D%0Ain+agriculture+(Reddy+2009).+Still%2C+the+productivity+of%0D%0Apulses+in+India+is+low+at+694+kg%2Fha%2C+and+to+make+pulses%0D%0Aproduction+internationally+competitive%2C+the+average%0D%0Ayield+levels+need+to+be+increased+to+at+least+1ton%2Fha...&rft.publisher=International+Crops+Research+Institute+for+the+Semi-Arid+Tropics&rft.date=2013&rft.type=Monograph&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.language=en&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Foar.icrisat.org%2F6812%2F1%2F26_Policy_BriefIndia%2520_2013.pdf&rft.identifier=++Reddy%2C+A+A+and+Bantilan%2C+M+C+S+and+Mohan%2C+G++(2013)+Pulses+Production+Scenario%3A+Policy+and+Technological+Options(Policy+Brief+No.+26).++Documentation.+International+Crops+Research+Institute+for+the+Semi-Arid+Tropics%2C+Patancheru%2C+Andhra+Pradesh%2C+India.+++++