{"id":20771,"date":"2024-02-22T12:56:17","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T07:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=20771"},"modified":"2025-04-06T07:35:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T02:05:38","slug":"pigeon-pea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/pigeon-pea\/","title":{"rendered":"Pigeon pea"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Pigeonpea<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is also called as\u00a0arhar and tur in India.<\/li>\n<li>It is an\u00a0important legume crop and\u00a0protein-rich food which is primarily consumed as dal in India.<\/li>\n<li>It is predominantly a crop of\u00a0tropical areas mainly cultivated in semi arid regions of India.<\/li>\n<li>Climatic conditions\n<ul>\n<li>Rain:\u00a0It\u00a0requires 600-650mm of annual rainfall along with moist conditions for the initial eight weeks and dry conditions during its flowering and pod development phase.<\/li>\n<li>Temperature:\u00a0It can be grown with a temperature ranging from 26<sup>0<\/sup>C to 30<sup>0<\/sup>C in the rainy season and 17<sup>0<\/sup>C to 22<sup>0<\/sup>C in the post rainy (November to March) season.<\/li>\n<li>Soil:\u00a0It can be grown on all types of soil, however,\u00a0sandy loam or loam soil is most suitable for its cultivation.<\/li>\n<li>It is very\u00a0sensitive to low radiation at pod development, therefore flowering during the monsoon and cloudy weather, leads to poor pod formation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>It is\u00a0commonly intercropped with a wide range of crops. In India, it was estimated that 80 &#8211; 90 % of the pigeonpea were intercropped.<\/li>\n<li>The important diseases of Pigeon pea are Wilt, Sterility mosaic disease, Phytophthora blight, Alternaria blight and Powdery mildew etc.<\/li>\n<li>Concern: The Pigeonpea\u2019s long growth cycle and\u00a0sensitivity to day length have hindered breeding efforts, with only about 250 varieties released globally over six decades.<\/li>\n<li>Health benefits: It has\u00a0low glycaemic index and is rich in thiamine, riboflavin, niacin, vitamin B-6, folate, vitamin A, calcium, zinc, iron, magnesium and phosphorus.<\/li>\n<li>Major Pigeon pea producing states:\u00a0Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal, Bihar and Jharkhand.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>New protocols of ICRISAT<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The new convention promises to substantially cut the time required to develop new Pigeonpea lines with desirable traits, effectively bringing food to dryland communities faster.<\/li>\n<li>The new protocol\u00a0shortens the breeding and control over factors like photoperiod, temperature, humidity, and breeding\u00a0cycle to 2 to 4 years while the traditional Pigeonpea breeding takes up to 13 years.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is the glycaemic index (GI)?<\/h3>\n<p>The glycaemic index (GI) is a rating system for foods containing carbohydrates. It shows how quickly each food affects your blood sugar (glucose) level when that food is eaten on its own.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/news\/agriculture\/new-protocol-can-reduce-breeding-cycle-of-pigeonpea-by-3-5-years-important-for-nutritional-security-in-drylands-94591\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>New protocol can reduce breeding cycle of pigeonpea by 3-5 years, important for nutritional security in drylands<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pigeon pea  is an important legume crop and protein-rich food which is primarily consumed as dal in India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":20772,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20771","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\/20771","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=20771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}