RESEARCH AND CONSERVATION

Directorate of Pulses Development, was established in the year 1971 at Lucknow.  It is responsible for performing a number of functions including monitoring of Centrally Sponsored Schemes in respect of Nodal crop - pulses and major crops of Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, besides administration. It w (Uttar Pradesh) Indian Institute of Pulses Research (IIPR), Kanpur, established in 1983, is the prime institute carrying out  basic strategic and applied research on major pulse crops.  Pulses research is also carried out in various agricultural universities of India.