info:oai:icrisat:6812info:ofi/fmt:xml:xsd:oai_dc http://oar.icrisat.org/6812/ Pulses Production Scenario: Policy and Technological Options(Policy Brief No. 26) Reddy, A A Bantilan, M C S Mohan, G Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics Historically, India is the largest producer, consumer and importer of pulses. Although it is the world’s largest pulses producer, there is still a huge shortage of pulses and also, the prices are not affordable to a large section of consumers. An immediate need is the development and dissemination of low-cost technologies in pulses production, so that they can be affordable to the common man. Even though pulses production increased by 3.35% per annum during the last decade, the cost of production and consequent prices are too high to be affordable to the common man; to increase production at lower cost is a bigger challenge. The earlier experience shows that technological efforts need to be supported by the right policy environment to harvest fruits of R&D in agriculture (Reddy 2009). Still, the productivity of pulses in India is low at 694 kg/ha, and to make pulses production internationally competitive, the average yield levels need to be increased to at least 1ton/ha... International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics 2013 Monograph NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://oar.icrisat.org/6812/1/26_Policy_BriefIndia%20_2013.pdf Reddy, A A and Bantilan, M C S and Mohan, G (2013) Pulses Production Scenario: Policy and Technological Options(Policy Brief No. 26). Documentation. International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh, India.