Establishment techniques
- About 60 per cent of the pulse are in grown as pure crop thorough land preparation before sowing i.e conventional tillage. In some areas pure crop is also grown by sowing in undisturbed land followed by ploughing
- Paira crop is adopted in 40 per cent pulse area i.e sowing pulse crop 10-15 days before harvest of paddy crop.
- Tremendous scope for minimum and zero tillage based pulse system