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Scaling Up Food Legume Production Through Genetic Gain and Improved Management

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Relation http://oar.icrisat.org/11909/
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64500-7_10
doi:10.1007/978-3-030-64500-7_10
 
Title Scaling Up Food Legume Production Through Genetic Gain and Improved Management
 
Creator Wani, S P
Chander, G
Patil, M D
Sawargavkar, G
Kumar, S
 
Subject Food and Nutrition
Information and Communications Technology
 
Description Pulses are important part 8 AU1
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of cropping systems and food
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systems in Asia, Africa, and
Latin America and occupy about 5.8% of the world’s arable 9 AU4
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land area (Joshi and
Parthasarathy Rao 2017). Pulses are unique largely due to their ability to grow on 10
marginal soils as they are able to fix most of their nitrogen requirement through 11
biological nitrogen fixation (BNF), are main source of proteins for vegetarian 12
people, and are also able to withstand stress situations such as drought. In 13
2011–2013, pulses accounted for 80 million ha of global crop area and produced 14
72 million metric t of grain. With respect to production globally, dry beans account 15
for 32%, chickpea 17%, dry peas 14.6%, cowpea 8.9%, lentils 7%, pigeon pea 6.2%, 16
and broad bean 5.8%. During the years 2005–2007, total production was around 17 AU6
60 million metric t, and so there is a significant increase in production in Canada and 18
Australia, the area expansion under pulses in Africa, and the export-oriented pro- 19
duction in Myanmar (Parthasarathy Rao et al. 2010). Developing countries account 20
for 70% of the global pulse production, but there is huge yield gap for pulses 21
between developed (1640 kg ha 22 1) and developing countries (765 kg ha 1). The
differences are apparently due to differences in inputs, technology, and 23
infrastructure.
 
Publisher Springer
 
Contributor Saxena, K B
Saxena, R K
Varshney, R K
 
Date 2021-09
 
Type Book Section
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/11909/1/Chapter-Legumes-2021-Proof.pdf
Wani, S P and Chander, G and Patil, M D and Sawargavkar, G and Kumar, S (2021) Scaling Up Food Legume Production Through Genetic Gain and Improved Management. In: Genetic Enhancement in Major Food Legumes (TSI). Springer, Switzerland, pp. 303-338.