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With reference to the news commentary “Inflation will continue to haunt in second-half too” (Business Line, July 26, 2008), one of the important commodities that is neglected is pulses production in India.

Despite the fact that a directorate of pulses development has been functioning for the last 37 years, the total production has actually decreased from 142 lakhs tonnes in 1990-90 to 132 lakh tonnes in 2006-07, forcing us to increase our imports from 8 lakh tonnes to 16 lakh tonnes. Given that nutrition exports have been advocating increased intake of pulses to fight malnutrition and the demand for pulses from the growing middle-class has been increasing, a project like ‘Operation Floods’ is required to increase pulses production to cope with the increased demand and to decrease its effect on the inflation front.

P. Esakki Muthu Mumbai

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