answer the following questions:
1) Write a note on millets?
2) Write a note on pulses of India?
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Generally, millets are small-grained, annual, warm-weather cereals belonging to the grass family. They are highly tolerant of drought and other extreme weather conditions and have a similar nutrient content to other major cereals.[6]
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CLIMATIC CONDITIONS, SOIL AND DISTRIBUTION OF PULSES - DEFINITION
Pulses form a very important part of the Indian diet. Dry light soil is required for cultivation of pulses. These crops - Gram, arhar, tur, urad, moong, masur, kulthi, matar, khesari or lakh and moth or matki - require temperature between 22
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C. India is the largest producer and consumer of pulses. The top five pulses producing States are Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Andhra Pradesh.
Millets [1] are a group of highly variable small-seeded grasses, widely grown around the world as cereal crops or grains for fodder and human food. Millets are important crops in the semiarid tropics of Asia and Africa (especially in India, Mali, Nigeria, and Niger), with 97% of millet production in developing countries.[2] The crop is favored due to its productivity and short growing season under dry, high-temperature conditions. Millets are indigenous to many parts of the world.[3] The most widely grown millet is pearl millet, which is an important crop in India and parts of Africa.[4] Finger millet, proso millet, and foxtail millet are also important crop species. Millets may have been consumed by humans for about 7,000 years and potentially had "a pivotal role in the rise of multi-crop agriculture and settled farming societies."[5]Answer
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PULSES.
Pulses are unique crops because they have built-in mechanisms to fix atmospheric nitrogen in their root nodule.
They are also rich in protein and are well fit in various crop systems. India is a rare country which increases the variety of pulse crops like this which does not grow in any country of the world.
Generally grown pulses are spoon or cereal, cesar arcticum lin, pigeon [casal cage (L.) Milsp
1, Blackgram or Ordbien (Fesolus vulgaris lynn) and rice bean [V, umbellata (Thunb.) Ohvi and ohasi .
The production improved, which is mainly due to the increase in productivity as a result of the new varieties generation or the pulse improvement work was limited to collection and appraisal of land races in different areas.
Farmers were growing local varieties, which lacked genetic correctness. Pure line selection was evaluated from local varieties for yield potential.
The promising type of multi-locale was tested in triangle. Based on performance in multi-location tests, the best genotype was identified as varieties.
Such superior varieties contributed to the productivity of pulses in the early stage of pulse improvement.
Crop Improvement:
Indian Institute of Pulse Research (IIIPR) and All India Coordination Drain Reform Project developed large number of high yielding varieties (33) during the eighth plan.
Some of them are resistant or unsaturated, such as inefficient blight, wilt, powder fungi and sterility mosaic.
It enabled the cultivation of pulses in traditional and non-traditional areas with productivity and stability in production.
For the north-western plains field, 'Gaurav', 'GNG 146', 'Pusa 261' and 'PBGI', and anti-resistant varieties, such as 'Pusa' for disease, in spoon development of Ashokita-tolerant varieties,
The areas prone to eastern plains and central areas brought stability to the production of spoons.
Dove peas, sterility mosaic-resistant varieties 'Bihar' and 'DA11' increased productivity. The ICPL 87119, released for central and south zones, has the right to resistance to wilt and sterility mosaic.
The development of short-term genotype ('UPAS 120', 'Manak', 'ICPLN 151' and 'Pusa 85', which mature within 150 days) expanded its cultivation in non-traditional areas of Western Uttar Pradesh, Haryana Helped in the form of Punjab and north-western Rajasthan pigen-wheat sequence.