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The Pulse Economy in the Mid-1990s: A Review of Global and Regional Developments

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http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-94-011-4385-1_1
 
Title The Pulse Economy in the Mid-1990s: A Review of Global and Regional Developments
 
Creator Kelley, T G
Rao, P P
Grisko-Kelley, H
 
Subject Food legumes
Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
 
Description The world pulse economy seems to have stagnated during the first half of the 1990s after going through a
contraction during the 1970s caused by the Green Revolution, and an expansion during the 1980s fuelled by
changes in the European Community's (EC) Common Agricultural Policies (CAP) which favored production
of pulses for feed. In 1996 world production stood at 57 million MT on 70.5 million ha with an average yield
of 809 kg/ha. However, recent vast cutbacks by the Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR)
and reductions in EC feed production following the 1992 CAP reforms in 1993 have been offset by a
sustained upward trend in Africa and a remarkable expansion in South Asia. Developing countries produce
71 % of the world's pulses. India remains the largest pulse producer with 27% of world production......
 
Publisher Kluwer Academic Publishers
 
Contributor Knight, R
 
Date 2000
 
Type Book Section
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/7871/1/1-29.pdf
Kelley, T G and Rao, P P and Grisko-Kelley, H (2000) The Pulse Economy in the Mid-1990s: A Review of Global and Regional Developments. In: Linking Research and Marketing Opportunities for Pulses in the 21st Century. Kluwer Academic Publishers, The Netherlands, pp. 1-29. ISBN 0-7923-5565-2