Author: Usha TutejaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Possibilities and Constraints of Increasing Production of Pulses and Impact of National Food Mission, Pulses in Haryana
Author: Usha TutejaAgricultural Situation in India
Author: Pulses Production in India
Author: Sankarsana NandaPublisher: New India Publishing Agency
ISBN: 9385516590
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 6
Book Description
This book focuses on production challenges of pulse in India and the scope and opportunities of its cultivation in different cropping systems, despite shrinking of natural resources and climate change. It further highlights self sufficiency in pulse production through knowledge based technological interventions for improving nutritional security and sustainable development. It provides a detailed account of challenges and opportunities of pulse production in India in simpler yet compact manner for better understanding by the researchers and policy makers.
Making pulses affordable again
Author: Joshi, Pramod KumarPublisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Rising prices and declining consumption of pulses cause concern in terms of both nutrition and food inflation in India. This paper outlines policy strategies to increase the availability of pulses at affordable prices in India and also points out limitations of some of the most common recommendations for achieving these objectives. There seems to be no option but to increase domestic production of pulses in India. The global supply of pulses is limited compared with India’s needs, and sizable imports by India are bound to increase world prices. Domestic production of pulses in India is most likely piecewise inelastic, meaning that small price increases do not translate into a significant supply response. Because farmers face both production and marketing risks, they increase pulse area and intensify production only when there is a large increase in expected prices that covers the risk premium. Droughts, too, are a major risk for pulses. Access to one or two protective irrigations during the growing season can possibly lead to sizable increases in pulse production and reduce the production risk. The har khet ko paani (assured irrigation) initiative under the Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana (PMKSY) program should give priority to pulse-producing areas. The minimum support price (MSP) for pulses, without direct government procurement, helps traders more than farmers because it acts as a focal point for tacit collusion among traders. Farmers will benefit from the MSP only if it is raised substantially from its current levels. The increase in farmgate prices due to a higher MSP will not necessarily lead to an increase in the retail price of pulses because much of the wedge between farmgate prices and consumer prices is traders’ margin. Including subsidized pulses in public distribution systems can save households some money, but it has only a small effect on total consumption of pulses and almost no effect on total protein intake. We suggest, as more potent solutions, investing in research and extension for pulses, aggregating pulse growers into farmer producer organizations, and paying pulse growers or pulse-growing areas for the ecosystem services offered by pulses.
Pulse Production
Author: Socio-economic and Eco-biological Dimensions in Resource use and Conservation
Author: Niranjan RoyPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 303032463X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 553
Book Description
This book presents the outcomes of the 2017 national workshop and international conference organized by CEENR of ISEC, Bengaluru and Assam University Silchar. Addressing the threats to biodiversity and sustainable development resulting from the impacts of human induced pressures on ecosystems and global-warming-driven climate change is a major challenge. It requires increased knowledge and an enhanced information base in order to devise local policies to improve the adaptive capacity of vulnerable socio-ecological systems in developing countries. In this context, the book presents research that has the potential to benefit the environment and empower communities. It appeals to researchers investigating diverse aspects of socio-ecological-biological systems to create strategies for resource use, conservation and management to ensure sustainability.
Pulses for Food and Nutritional Security of India
Author: Poornima VarmaPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9811931852
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
This book provides an in-depth analysis of India’s pulses sector in terms of production, prices, markets, and trade. Pulses play a pivotal role in a developing country like India for all categories of people due to its rich protein content (double that of wheat and three times more than that of rice). Despite being an important crop from the point of view of food, nutrition, and environmental security, the focus of food security policies in developing countries has been more on wheat and rice production. This book analyses factors influencing the supply of pulses with a greater emphasis on government interventions such as minimum support price (MSP) and National Food Security Mission (NFSM), the effectiveness of MSP and factors influencing farmers’ access to MSP, the import dependency implications through a detailed import pricing behavior of major importers of major pulses. It investigates production, market dynamics, and trade implications related to two major pulses, chickpea and pigeonpea, produced by all pulse-producing States in India. Analysis of farmer's awareness of MSP and factors influencing access to MSP are undertaken through a comprehensive household survey from the States of Maharashtra, Karnataka, and Madhya Pradesh. Finally, the book analyses import implications and import pricing behaviour for all major pulses imported by India. The book would be very useful for researchers working on the issues of agricultural production and food security, for agriculture and agri-business students, as well as for policy makers to understand the inherent dynamics in the pulses sector.
Solving The Pulses Crisis
Author: B.Gangwar:Publisher: New India Publishing Agency
ISBN: 9789381450482
Category : Crops
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
India has achieved self sufficiency in food grain production in recent years with record production of 250 mt during 2011-12. However, the pulses production remained low and considered to be the major concern for researchers and development planners. Considering the much more importance in near future and to avoid pulses crisis situation, the present attempt was made to compile the available scientific information, so as to highlight the issues, technologies and strategies in the title of "Solving Pulses Crisis" in India. The publication is divided into two parts. The first part deals national issues, technologies and strategies while the second part deals with crop based issue and technologies. The first part consists of 13 s. The first three s deals with pulses related national issues, technologies and strategies including NEH region too. The IV deals with crop diversification involving pulses while V focused on pulses production under organic system. The issues related to legumes as a nutrient supplement in VI, tillage and crop establishment in VII water management in pulses in VIII and Integrated nutrient management in IX are discussed in detail. The aspects of weed and pest management are presented in X to XI, respectively. The specific issues related to post harvest, value addition are discussed in XII, while trade related policy issues are focused in XIII. In part second, the crop issues, strategies and technologies are presented. Accordingly, XIV deals with pigeonpea while in XV issues related to greengram and black gram are discussed. The XVI to XIX deals with chickpea, lentil, field pea and lathyrus while in XX the issues technologies and prospects of Guar are discussed. In last XXI the issues and technologies related to arid legumes (mothbean, cowpea and horsegram) with special reference to arid areas are discussed. Hopefully, the publication will prove to be a reference and a way forward for solving pulses crisis in India and achieving the targets matching with food production strategies in years to come.
Pulses Production Scenario
Author: A Amarender A. ReddyPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book 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 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% annually 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 a 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. 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. Some of the policy suggestions that emerged from the studies at ICRISAT to increase pulses production are: (1) Maintain a stable price band, which will give stable profits to farmers for a reasonably longer period through innovative market interventions for all pulse crops. (2) Strengthen government programs like National Food Security Mission (NFSM) to reduce yield gaps between farmers and research stations. (3) Develop low cost innovative seed systems and select farmers' preferred varieties through farmers' participatory varietal selection (FPVS) to replace old varieties. (4) Focus on abiotic and biotic stress management to increase stability in production through an integrated approach. (5) Provide incentives for adoption of low-cost technologies, such as the application of micro-nutrients to reduce the cost of production and increase yield. (6) Increase awareness about the utility of the wider adoption of farm machinery, herbicides, and micro-irrigation facilities to cope with labor and water shortages in rural areas. (7) Develop market infrastructure and information systems, and enhance credit availability in districts growing pulses. On the R&D front, development of short duration, photothermo, insensitive varieties for different agro-ecologies, use of biotechnology tools for the development of new varieties with required traits, and development of bio-intensive low-cost integrated pest management (IPM) modules need to be given priority.
The global economy of pulses
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United NationsPublisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9251097305
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
The production, trade and consumption of pulses have seen substantial growth over the last fifteen years. This report examines the trends and patterns of this growth, and the factors that explain these for different kinds of pulses. The report presents an analysis of trends of consumption of pulses in different regions of the world and discusses the role that pulses can play in human nutrition. The report presents an analysis of the dynamics of growth of major pulses in different pulse-producing countries of the world. It describes the increasingly important role of trade in the global economy of pulses and presents an analysis of changing patterns of trade. The report argues that there is a pressing need to close the large gap between potential and actual yields, particularly on smallholder farms in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, by increased adoption of improved varieties and modern agronomic practices in all developing countries. This in turn requires a major thrust in agricultural research and extension, improving credit availability, and public investment directed at pulse production. The report discusses future prospects and policy imperatives for sustaining the growth of pulse production.