date:2014-02-20~2014-02-22
needs, much more than milk, eggs or meat. In 2010-11 India produced 18.1 million tonnes of pulses and consumed 21 million tonnes. The balance was imported from countries such as Canada, Myanmar and China. In an estimate by the World Health Organization, every Indian needs 80 grams of pulses every day to meet his or her protein needs. This implies that by the year 2018, India will require 38 million tonnes of pulses to meet its populations nutritional requirements.
India has the largest area in