The Trends in Production and Imports of Pulses in India

Abstract

Agriculture is cardinal sector of Indian economy. Our economy based on agriculture weather it is directly or indirectly. India is self-sufficient in agricultural products, but still now the India is a food deficit country facing malnutrition and high incidence of poverty. Pulses are the rich and approachable source of proteins, fiber, minerals and iron. So by escalating the consumption of pulses micronutrient deficiency as well as protein-energy malnutrition can be reduced up to some extent. Keeping the importance of pulses production and consumption in view an attempt has been taken in present research paper to examine the trends of production, area and imports in India. The study based on secondary data. Study concludes that there was a rapid growth in demand of pulses after 2014 in India. Despite that fact the production and imports were also sharply increase that period. But the rates of imports were more as compare to production. The degree of correlation was high and significant among different variables.