{"id":20771,"date":"2026-08-06T12:56:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T07:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=20771"},"modified":"2026-08-06T14:44:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T09:14:17","slug":"pigeon-pea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/pigeon-pea\/","title":{"rendered":"Pigeonpea"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Pigeonpea Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) has developed India&#8217;s first fully annotated telomere-to-telomere (T2T) reference genome of pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan L. Millsp.) variety &#8216;Asha&#8217;.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Pigeonpea<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is popularly known as \u2018<\/span><b>Arhar\u2019 or \u2018Tur\u2019.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is one of India&#8217;s most <\/span><b>important pulse crops<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and a major source of dietary protein.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a legume<\/span><b> crop and protein-rich food<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> which is primarily consumed as dal in India.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is predominantly a <\/span><b>crop of tropical<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> areas mainly cultivated in <\/span><b>semi-arid regions of India.<\/b><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Required Climatic conditions<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Rain:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It requires <\/span><b>600-650mm<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of annual rainfall along with moist conditions for the initial eight weeks and dry conditions during its flowering and pod development phase.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Temperature:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It can be grown with a <\/span><b>temperature ranging from 26 to 30 degree Celsius <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in the rainy season and 17 to 22 <\/span><b>degree Celsius <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in the post rainy (November to March) season.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Soil:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It can be grown on all types of soil, however, <\/span><b>sandy loam or loam soil<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is most suitable for its cultivation.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is very <\/span><b>sensitive to low radiation at pod development,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> therefore flowering during the monsoon and cloudy weather, leads to poor pod formation.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is commonly <\/span><b>intercropped with a wide range of crops.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Diseases:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The important diseases of <\/span><b>Pigeon pea are Wilt, Sterility mosaic disease<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Phytophthora blight, Alternaria blight and Powdery mildew etc.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Health benefits:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It has <\/span><b>low glycaemic index<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and is rich in thiamine, riboflavin, niacin, vitamin B-6, folate, vitamin A, calcium, zinc, iron and magnesium<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Major Pigeon pea producing states:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal, Bihar and Jharkhand.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2294441&amp;reg=48&amp;lang=2#:~:text\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PIB<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pigeonpea is one of India&#8217;s most important pulse crops and a major source of dietary protein. 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