Abstract

Adnan Shakeel* and Najmul Islam Hashmi

Inspite of being the major source of protein and staple food for the majority of population the production of pulses is stagnated at all India level between 12 and 15 million tonnes. It is believed that the demand of pulses will increase upto 20 million tonnes during 2020 A.D. Thus, a need arise to find out the causes for such stagnation and to suggest some remedial measures for increasing the area and production under pulses. The objectives of the present study is to analyze the trend and spatial pattern of area, production and yield of pulses in Eastern Uttar Pradesh during 1990-1992 to 2007-2009, including the regional imbalances in the availability of pulses per head per day in grams on the basis of recommendations given by Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) Hyderabad. Changes in the area and production of pulses are compared to those of major cereals to draw conclusions to ascertain, whether the trend is in the same direction or opposite. Finally, the study concluded that the area (except lentil) and production (except black gram and lentil) of the pulses has been decreased during the study period.