Focus of public procurement should be pulses

For a chronic importer of pulses, it is heartening to see the country’s domestic production hit an all-time-high of 18.45 million tonnes (mt) in 2012-13. Moreover, based on sowing trends so far and a good monsoon, Indian farmers look set to harvest a bumper crop this year as well. The unfortunate part – from their viewpoint – is that open market prices of chana or Bengal gram...

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