Mumbai: India's pulses import value has increased by 73 percent to $ 2.18 billion in the April to September period of the current financial year 2024-25. The import bill in the first half of the last financial year was $1.27 billion.
According to Commerce Ministry data, import of pulses increased by 34.80 percent to $425.7 million in September. Due to low domestic production, India has to import more pulses, especially tuvar, urad and desi gram.
In view of the Lok Sabha elections in April-May of the current year, the government had lifted the import ban on pulses to increase domestic supply.
With the changing lifestyle in India, the demand for pulses is continuously increasing while the production is not increasing accordingly.
Despite good monsoon conditions in the country for some time now, production levels remain low due to relatively low planting even though demand is high. Cultivation of pulses has increased by 7.45 percent in the current Kharif season.
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