With the increase in the country’s population, the demand for pulses is also increasing rapidly, but the yield in that proportion is not increasing. The big concern is that the area of pulses is also decreasing. However, despite the low area, the amount of production is stable. For the last three years, around 275 lakh tonnes have been produced, according to NITI Aayog, India will need 326.40 lakh tonnes of lentils by 2030. It is clear that then there will be a shortage of about 50 lakh tonnes of pulses. If this difference is to be reduced, then there will be a need for a concrete policy to provide beneficial prices to farmers from the cultivation of pulses.

To satisfy its demands, India must import pulses worth 16 to 20 thousand crores from nations such as Canada, Myanmar, and Australia. To address the present pulse crisis, India has set a target of producing 325.47 million tonnes of pulses over the next five years.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare will operate on two levels. To raise the first Kacha, the second step is to identify land, provide technical assistance to farmers, and stimulate the production of pulses by diverting less useful crops. The government appears to be expanding the options for origin in Jharkhand, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Bangal, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Assam, Karnataka, and Mill. Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, and Karnataka are now the main pulse-producing states.

The area of pulse cultivation in Kharif Sanjan has shrunk by six lakh hectares. In 2014-15, 171.5 lakh tonnes of pulses were produced, which is expected to climb to 278.10 lakh tonnes in 2022-23. In nine years, there has been a 62.5 percent growth. Due to seasonal circumstances, there has not been significant rise in output over the recent two to three years; total pulse production in 2021-22 was 273.02 lakh tonnes.

In the domestic market, there is a 3% discrepancy between output and consumption. India produces over 25% of the world’s walls. However, consumption accounts for 28% of global output. That is, India’s consumption is 3% larger than its output. It is obtained through imports. 7.70 lakh tonnes of pulses were imported in the first four months of the current fiscal year, which is two and a half times more than 2.89 lakh tonnes in the same period last year. Recent pulses have intensified as the crisis’s connection has deteriorated. 4.85 in the year 2022-23 from Canada.