relation: http://oar.icrisat.org/6812/
title: Pulses Production Scenario: Policy and Technological Options(Policy Brief No. 26) 
creator: Reddy, A A
creator: Bantilan, M C S
creator: Mohan, G
subject: Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
description: 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...
publisher: International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
date: 2013
type: Monograph
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: en
identifier: http://oar.icrisat.org/6812/1/26_Policy_BriefIndia%20_2013.pdf
identifier:   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.