Keeping the Focus on Grain Pulses
Consumer awareness of the nutritional and dietary benefits of pulses, the edible seeds of leguminous plants and notably including lentils, chickpeas, cowpeas and many dry beans, remains inadequate and more must be done to promote their role in food systems, FAO Deputy Director-General Maria Helena Semedo said today.
Progress has been made thanks to initiatives during 2016, the International Year of Pulses, but „it essential to keep the momentum alive,” Semedo told participants in a Global Dialogue held at FAO headquarters.
Known for their relatively high protein content and their particular ability to take nitrogen and fix it in soils, pulses also a fertile building block for other crops as well.
Meena Kadri