Pulses occupy an critical place in Indian agriculture. In India, pulses are grown over a place of 23.Eight million hectares with a complete manufacturing of 18.6 million tonnes. The average yield of pulses in India is set 735 kg/hectare. The united states of america want to supply 405 million tonnes of additional pulses for meeting the home requirement and this may be viable most effective if we broaden excessive yielding, quick length, drought and insect pest resistance forms of pulses. In the rainy season, pulses like green gram, black gram, pigeon pea and cow pea are the maximum vital and leading pulse plants of India. Chick pea, lentil, lathyrus, area pea and kidney bean are the vital pulse vegetation grown in the course of wintry weather season. However, inexperienced gram, black gram and cowpea are grown in each spring and wet season. Pulses are generally grown in irrigated in addition to rain fed area and belong to leguminaceae family. (Main growing areas of pulses in India are Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Rajasthan. Madhya Pradesh is the leading nation in India in pulses, in1erms of cultivated place and productiveness.

Factors Responsible for Low Yield of Pulses

Delayed sowings/plantings
Low seed charge resulting in negative crop stands
Poor weed control at some stage in crop increase
Inefficient irrigation and rain water management
Large scale monoculture and non-inclusion of pulses in cropping structures
Lack of attention of preceding cropping within the equal discipline
Inadequate plant safety.
Non-availability of seeds of HYVs at low-priced rate and at the ideal time
Lack of extra green N using genotypes
Imbalanced use of fertilisers
Poor control for secondary and micronutrient, specially five, Zn, Mn, Fe and B.

India has already enjoyed five a long time of post inexperienced revolution duration. However, strong or declining pulses manufacturing created numerous problems like protein malnutrition and insecurity of first-class food and better pulses fee. Demand of pulses is a whole lot better than its availability which results in hike inside the fees of pulses that’s unaffordable to consumers specifically populace residing in rural, hilly and tribal regions. The projected requirement of pulses by the year 2030 is envisioned at approximately 32 million tonnes. Pulses play a pivotal role in improving livelihood security, nutritional protection, meals protection, soil fitness, farm earnings and environmental sustainability. Thus pulses are optimal plants cultivated in Indian subcontinent.