{
  "id": "agr-pulses-102",
  "question": "How much pulses does India produce?",
  "topic": "Agriculture",
  "unit": "million tonnes",
  "decimals": 1,
  "measures": "Production of pulses (tur/arhar, gram, urad, moong, lentil and other pulses) in million tonnes, kharif, rabi and summer seasons together, from the Department of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare. The latest year is the third advance estimate and will be revised; earlier years are final estimates.",
  "verified": true,
  "source": {
    "name": "Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare (DA&FW), Third Advance Estimates of Production of Food Grains, Oilseeds & Commercial Crops 2025-26, time series",
    "url": "https://desagri.gov.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Time-Series-3rd-AE-2025-26-English.pdf",
    "table": "Total Pulses (18 = 12+13+14+15+16+17), Total row, lakh tonnes ÷ 10; as on 27.05.2026 (2015-16 to 2024-25 final, 2025-26 third advance estimates)",
    "licence": "GODL-India"
  },
  "released": "2026-05-27",
  "retrieved": "2026-10-20",
  "nextDueBy": "2027-01-01",
  "processing": "Published in lakh tonnes; divided by 10 to give million tonnes. Nothing else computed.",
  "exam": {
    "publisher": "Directorate of Economics & Statistics, Department of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare (DA&FW), Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare",
    "survey": "Advance and final estimates of production of foodgrains, oilseeds and commercial crops",
    "frequency": "Three advance estimates through the crop year (July–June), then final estimates; the advance estimates of a year leave out seasons not yet harvested",
    "measures": "Production of all pulses (all seasons), million tonnes",
    "notes": [
      "Pulses are counted in foodgrains",
      "Gram (chana) is a rabi crop and the largest pulse; tur/arhar is kharif",
      "Summer-season figures are shown separately from 2022-23; before that they were included in rabi"
    ]
  },
  "targets": [
    {
      "label": "Mission for Aatmanirbharta in Pulses",
      "value": 35,
      "by": "2030-31",
      "source": {
        "name": "Union Cabinet decision, 1 Oct 2025: pulses production to 350 lakh tonnes by 2030-31 (PM India)",
        "url": "https://www.pmindia.gov.in/en/news_updates/union-cabinet-approves-mission-for-aatmanirbharta-in-pulses-for-2025-26-to-2030-31/"
      }
    }
  ],
  "values": [
    {
      "period": "2015-16",
      "start": "2015-04",
      "end": "2016-03",
      "value": 16.323
    },
    {
      "period": "2016-17",
      "start": "2016-04",
      "end": "2017-03",
      "value": 23.129
    },
    {
      "period": "2017-18",
      "start": "2017-04",
      "end": "2018-03",
      "value": 25.416
    },
    {
      "period": "2018-19",
      "start": "2018-04",
      "end": "2019-03",
      "value": 22.076
    },
    {
      "period": "2019-20",
      "start": "2019-04",
      "end": "2020-03",
      "value": 23.025
    },
    {
      "period": "2020-21",
      "start": "2020-04",
      "end": "2021-03",
      "value": 25.463
    },
    {
      "period": "2021-22",
      "start": "2021-04",
      "end": "2022-03",
      "value": 27.302
    },
    {
      "period": "2022-23",
      "start": "2022-04",
      "end": "2023-03",
      "value": 26.058
    },
    {
      "period": "2023-24",
      "start": "2023-04",
      "end": "2024-03",
      "value": 24.246
    },
    {
      "period": "2024-25",
      "start": "2024-04",
      "end": "2025-03",
      "value": 25.683
    },
    {
      "period": "2025-26",
      "start": "2025-04",
      "end": "2026-03",
      "value": 27.409
    }
  ],
  "page": "https://india.tf/c/agr-pulses-102/",
  "csv": "https://india.tf/c/agr-pulses-102/data.csv",
  "versions": "https://india.tf/c/agr-pulses-102/versions.csv"
}