Government allocates Rs 1,070 crore for pulses
DSIJ Intelligence / 01 Aug 2017
The government has allocated Rs 1,069.87 crore for pulses as central share to increase the production of pulses in the country, said a government release on Monday.
The government has allocated Rs 1,069.87 crore for pulses as central share to increase the production of pulses in the country, said a government release on Monday. This allocation is out of the total allocation of Rs 1,720 crore under the National Food Security Mission (NFSM) for the year 2017-18.
A programme on additional area coverage of pulses is operational since 2013-14 under the NFSM to increase the production of rabi/summer pulses through area expansion of rabi pigeon pea, gram, pea and lentil during rabi and moong and urad during summer in NFSM-Pulses implementing states.
The government is strengthening and upgrading trade-related infrastructure, and taking steps to enhance the ease of doing business, to improve India’s export competitiveness and deepen engagements with new markets to promote product standards, packaging and branding of Indian products, it added.
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