Changing scenario of pulses in India-an analytical view

In India major five pulses chick pea, pigeon pea, green gram, black gram and lentil occupied 35, 16, 13, 12 and 7 percent of total legumes area contributing 48, 16,9, 7 and 6 percent pulses production while the other minor pulses contributed only 17 percent in legumes area and 14 percent in pulses production. The annual compound growth of chickpea recorded the higtiest growth rate 4.61 percent in area, 6.32 percent in production and 1.64 percent in productivity during the 2000s decade while the growth rates where lowest i.e. -1.41, -0.81 and 0.61 percent respectively observed during 1980s decade. Pigeon pea recorded compound growth rate 2.30 percent in legumes area and 2.89 percent in pulses production put 0.56 percent in productivity only during 1980s followed by, 1.18, 2.05 and 0.87 percent in area production and productivity respectively during 1990s. In the case of lentil the highest growth rate was reported 5.49 percent in area 1.99 percent in production and 3.43 percent in productivity during 1980s followed by 2.44 percent in area, 2.33 percent production and 0.09 percent in productivity during 19908. During the decade 2000–01 to 2010–11 the area per cent increased in five mjor States of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Maharashtra and Karnataka and decadal growth rate was observed to be 45.23, 100.22, 13.51 and 36.41 per centre respectively. However, the highest growth rate in area recorded in Jharkhand was 266.45 per cent. Similarly the highest growth rates of production were recorded in Rajasthan, Gujarat, Jharkhand, Chattisgadh and Orissa to the tune of 345.62, 279.13, 243.38, 100.94 and 100.71 percent respectively.