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Technological And Policy Intervention For Increasing Chickpea Production In India

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Relation http://oar.icrisat.org/10922/
 
Title Technological And Policy Intervention For Increasing
Chickpea Production In India
 
Creator Chaturvedi, S K
Jha, S K
Singh, N P
Gaur, P M
Varshney, R K
 
Subject Chickpea
Others
Indian Agriculture
Legume Crops
 
Description In India, more than a dozen pulses such as chickpea, pigeonpea, mungbean, urdbean, lentil, fieldpea, lathyrus, rajmash,
cowpea, mothbean, horse gram, rice bean etc. are cultivated on 27-28 m ha area in 10-12 major states.
Out of these pulses, Bengal gram or chickpea (Cicer
arietinum L.) is major one. It ranked first in area (8.93 m ha),
production (8.37 m t) and productivity (937 kg/ha) during last
5 years (2012-17) on average basis registering positive growth
in area, production and yields during last three consecutive
Five Year Plans. Recently, chickpea production has attained
new height and reached to double digits (>11.10 m t), thus
may contribute about 45% to the total pulses basket of our
country. This could happen to technological advancements
made in terms of varieties development, emphasis on quality
seed production and supply, massive efforts on transfer of
technologies through various schemes and favourable policy
support like minimum support price (MSP) and procurement,
Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY), Pradhan Mantri
Krishi Sinchai Yojana (PMKSY), ensured supply of fertilizers,
etc. from the Government of India. Later many state
Governments followed these policies leading to all time high
production (11.10 m t) of chickpea during 2017-18 (http://
pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=176824). Govt,
of India and several State Governments are making all efforts
to procure chickpea directly from farmers at remunerative
minimum support price (MSP). These efforts will encourage
Indian farmers to grow more chickpea in years to come and
to produce additional 1.5 to 2 m t of chickpea.
 
Publisher India Pulses and Grains Association (IPGA)
 
Date 2018
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/10922/1/Technological%20And%20Policy%20Intervention%20For%20Increasing%20Chickpea%20Production%20In%20India.pdf
Chaturvedi, S K and Jha, S K and Singh, N P and Gaur, P M and Varshney, R K (2018) Technological And Policy Intervention For Increasing Chickpea Production In India. Pulse India, 8 (1). pp. 7-12.