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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | All that ails pulses in India - Vivek Mishra, Shagun Kapil and Raju Sajwan

All that ails pulses in India - Vivek Mishra, Shagun Kapil and Raju Sajwan

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published Published on Oct 1, 2021   modified Modified on Oct 2, 2021

-Down to Earth 

The past three decades have seen stagnation in acreage, production and productivity of pulses across the country due to a bevy of reasons that include availability of more profitable crops

The primary reason behind India’s domestic shortage in pulses is stagnation of production over the past five decades. Overcoming the Pulses Crisis, a 2010 report by the Confederation of Indian Industry, states the production of pulses grew only by 45 per cent from 1951 to 2008, while wheat production grew by 320 per cent and rice by 230 per cent.

Though production of pulses has risen in the past decade — by 65 per cent between 2009-10 and 2020-21, as per the Third Advance Estimate given by the Union Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare on May 25, 2021—over-all growth is not enough to meet domestic demand, which has been met by imports since 1981.

The production of kharif pulses (tur, urad and moong), which account for about 40 per cent of India’s total pulses, has been worse than that of rabi pulses (chana and masoor). These are the five main pulses produced in the country and covered by minimum support price.

According to a NITI Aayog report titled Demand and Supply Projections Towards 2033, released on July 30, 2021, production of kharif pulses was rising by 8.7 per cent in 1980 but fell to -6.6 per cent by 1990. Production of rabi pulses, too, was increasing at 5.5 per cent and fell to -3.2 per cent in 1990, but it then made a recovery in the next decade and grew at 4.2 per cent after 2000 due to programmes such as the Integrated Scheme of Oilseed, Pulses, Oil Palm and Maize and the National Food Security Mission.

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Down to Earth, 1 October, 2021, https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/agriculture/all-that-ails-pulses-in-india-78750?fbclid=IwAR2AbtX08L4rcRjvWdepp7B6UogaxpvLeqC3PRCH4OyvC-Bl8fEWw4LhSk4


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