Production expected to increase due to good increase in MSP of Kharif pulses crops
20-Jun-2024 05:25 PM
New Delhi. The government has been making continuous efforts for the last several months to increase the supply and availability of pulses in the domestic sector.
In this sequence, during the last financial year, the import of pulses from abroad also increased rapidly to a very high level.
The government wants to achieve self-sufficiency in this by increasing the production of pulses from indigenous sources and for this it is increasing the minimum support price of pulses well.
For the current Kharif season of 2024-25, the minimum support price (MSP) of Arhar or Tuvar has been increased by 7.9 percent to Rs 7550 per quintal,
the support price of Urad has been increased by 6.5 percent to Rs 7400 per quintal and the minimum support price of moong has been increased by 1.4 percent to Rs 8682 per quintal.
The minimum support price of moong was increased tremendously during the last two years, so this time there has been less increase in it. Last year, the support price of tur was fixed at Rs. 7000 per quintal and that of urad at Rs. 6900 per quintal.
The price of pulses has been a headache for the common man and the government for the last one and a half to two years because no effort to curb its rise has proved effective so far. Lentils are being imported in huge quantities from Canada and Australia. Import of urad and tur from Myanmar,
tur from African countries and yellow peas from Russia and Canada continues unabated. Now the import of Desi gram has also been made duty free till October 31, but still there is no softening in the domestic market price of pulses.
Sowing of Kharif pulse crops has started. Maharashtra, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan are its major producing states,
while states like Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Bihar also produce pulses well. The market price of pulses is higher than the minimum support price, so farmers may get incentive to increase its sowing area.