Introduction [In Pulses for nutrition in India: Changing patterns from farm to fork]
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Roy, Devesh; Joshi, Pramod Kumar; and Chandra, Raj. 2017. Introduction. In Pulses for nutrition in India: Changing patterns from farm to fork, eds. Devesh Roy, Pramod Kumar Joshi, and Raj Chandra. Chapter 1, pp. 1-20. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896292567_01.
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The remainder of this chapter presents some facts that form the background motivation for this book: the production and consumption patterns of India’s pulse sector, the global context of trade in pulses and the position of India therein, the nutritional and environmental characteristics that make pulses a salient crop in meeting human needs, and the different initiatives for the pulses sector taken up by the government of India.
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Pramod Kumar Joshi https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9637-1767
Raj Chandra https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5899-0620
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