To achieve self-sufficiency in pulses production by 2025, productivity needs to be enhanced to about 1,000 kg per hectare and the government has prepared a plan to achieve that target during FY17 and FY18, Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh said on Tuesday.

Addressing the Members of the Parliamentary Consultative Committee attached to the Ministry of Agriculture here, Singh said a roadmap has been envisaged to achieve production of 20 million tonnes of pulses in 2016-17, 21 mt in 2017-18 and 24 mg in 2020-21, as against 16.47 mt production in 2015-16. 

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                                                   The targets have been set by the government under the centrally-sponsored scheme of National Food Security Mission (NFSM).Pulses production registered a remarkable increase from 14.76 million tonnes in 2007-08 to a record level of 19.25 mg in 2013-14.

"This could be possible due to a cumulative effect of scientific interventions in the form of development of new varieties and technologies, good weather conditions and policy support," the minister said, according to an official release.