Volume : II, Issue : III, March - 2013

Storage Practices of Pulses in Selected Households

D. Gayathri, Dr. Mrs . K. Manimozhi

Abstract :

Pulses are biologically rich source of protein and essential minerals. Pulses play a key role in improving and sustaining soil productivity on account of biological nitrogen fixation and addition of huge amount of organic matter. The crisis of pulses is gradually firing up its grip due to growth of population and introduction of protein based food industries. The total food grain loss accounts to 9.33 per cent on total food grains production. About 10 per cent of this stored food grain is lost every year due to attack by insects, rodents, moisture, birds, micro–organisms etc. Hence, conducting research in the field of grain storage especially in the sphere of pulses storage is the need of the hour. An attempt was made in this direction to find out the existing storage practices and problems faced during storage of pulses in Anamali and Pollachi block.

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D.Gayathri, Dr.(Mrs).K.Manimozhi Storage Practices of Pulses in Selected Households International Journal of Scientific Research, Vol.II, Issue.III March 2013

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