The Mission was announced in the Union Budget 2025-26 to reduce import dependency, meet the rising demand, maximize production, and enhance farmers’ income.
Key Features
- Time Period: 6 Years (2025-26 to 2030-31).
- Financial Outlay: Rs 11,440 crore.
- Aim: Boosting domestic production and achieving self-sufficiency (Aatmanirbharta) in pulses.
- Several initiatives will be taken under the mission for developing and disseminating Climate-Resilient & Improved Seed Varieties, developing post-harvest infrastructure, value addition etc.
- Target:
- Area: Increase area under pulses to 310 lakh hectares.
- It also seeks to expand the area under pulses by an additional 35 lakh hectares by targeting rice fallow areas and other diversifiable lands.
- Production: To drive production to 350 lakh tonnes.
- Productivity: Raise yield to 1130 kg/ha.
- Area: Increase area under pulses to 310 lakh hectares.
- Approach: It will adopt a cluster-based approach, tailoring interventions to the specific needs of each cluster.
- Focus Crops: Tur/Arhar (pigeon pea); Urad (black gram) & Masoor (red lentil).
- Assured Procurement: National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India (NAFED) & National Cooperative Consumers' Federation of India Ltd (NCCF) will procure 100% of produce from farmers in participating states over the next 4 years.
- Mechanism for Monitoring Global Pulse Prices: It will be established under the mission to safeguard farmer confidence.
Need for the Self-Reliance in Pulses
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