relation: http://oar.icrisat.org/7101/
title: Enhancing the Productivity and Production of Pulses in India
creator: Gowda, C L L
creator: Samineni, S
creator: Gaur, P M
creator: Saxena, K B
subject: Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
description: Pulses are major sources of proteins among the vegetarians  in India, and complement the staple cereals in the diets with  proteins, essential amino acids, vitamins and minerals. They  contain 22-24% protein, which is almost twice the protein  in wheat and thrice that of rice. Pulses provide significant  nutritional and health benefits, and are known to reduce several  non-communicable diseases such as colon cancer and cardiovascular  diseases (Yude et al, 1993; Jukanti et al, 2012). Pulses  can be grown on range of soil and climatic conditions and play  important role in crop rotation, mixed and inter-cropping,  maintaining soil fertility through nitrogen fixation, release of  soil-bound phosphorus, and thus contribute significantly to  sustainability of the farming systems .
publisher: National Institute of Advanced Studies
contributor: Shetty, P K
contributor: Ayyappan, S
contributor: Swaminathan, M S
date: 2013
type: Book Section
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: en
identifier: http://oar.icrisat.org/7101/1/EnhancingTheProductivity-2013.pdf
identifier:   Gowda, C L L and Samineni, S and Gaur, P M and Saxena, K B  (2013) Enhancing the Productivity and Production of Pulses in India.   In:  Climate Change and Sustainable Food Security.   National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, pp. 145-159.  ISBN 978-81-87663-76-8