%0 Report
%9 Documentation
%A Reddy, A A
%A Bantilan, M C S
%A Mohan, G
%C Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh, India
%D 2013
%F icrisat:6812
%I International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
%T Pulses Production Scenario: Policy and Technological Options(Policy Brief No. 26) 
%U http://oar.icrisat.org/6812/
%X 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...