{"id":19310,"date":"2024-01-14T04:38:18","date_gmt":"2024-01-13T23:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=19310"},"modified":"2025-04-05T16:39:40","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T11:09:40","slug":"lentil-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/lentil-production\/","title":{"rendered":"Lentil Production"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Lentil<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a valuable human food, mostly consumed\u00a0as dry seeds.<\/li>\n<li>In India, it\u2019s mostly consumed as \u2018Dal\u2019 by removal of outer skin and separation of cotyledons.<\/li>\n<li>Lentil is also called Masur and Malka (bold seeded).<\/li>\n<li>Climatic condition\n<ul>\n<li>Lentil requires a cold climate.<\/li>\n<li>It is very hardy and\u00a0can tolerate frost and severe winter to a great extent.<\/li>\n<li>It requires cold temperature during its vegetative growth and warm temperature at the time of maturity.<\/li>\n<li>Temperature: The optimum temperature for growth is 18-300 C. Its range of cultivation extends to an altitude of 3,500 m in north-west hills.<\/li>\n<li>Soil: Well drained, loam soils with neutral reaction are best for lentil cultivation.\u00a0Acidic soils are\u00a0not fit for growing lentil.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>It is widely cultivated throughout\u00a0Europe, Asia, and North Africa.<\/li>\n<li>The Lentil growing states in India are Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Chattisgarh, Haryana, Punjab, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, etc<\/li>\n<li>It is easy to cook and\u00a0easily digestible with high biological value. Dry leaves, stems, empty and broken pods are used as valuable cattle feed.<\/li>\n<li>According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the world&#8217;s top lentil growers in 2022 were\u00a0Canada,\u00a0India, Australia, Turkey and Russia.<\/li>\n<li>Despite being the second largest producer of lentil, India has so far been importing mainly from\u00a0Australia, Canada, Russia, Singapore, and Turkey.<\/li>\n<li>During the current year, it also imported some quantities of lentil from\u00a0UAE, USA, Sri Lanka and Nepal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is the Food and Agriculture Organization?<\/h3>\n<p>It is a specialized agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger and improve nutrition and food security. Its goal is to achieve food security for all and make sure that people have regular access to enough high-quality food to lead active, healthy lives.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/business\/commodities\/indias-lentil-production-set-to-touch-all-time-high-govt-9107369\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>India\u2019s lentil production set to touch all-time high: Govt<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lentil is a valuable human food, mostly consumed as dry seeds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":19311,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19310","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}