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Informist, Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2025

 

By Pallavi Singhal

 

NEW DELHI – The government is estimating India's production of tur, or pigeon pea, at 3.20-3.30 million tonnes in the crop year 2025–26 (Jul–Jun), down 7-10% from 3.56 million tonnes in 2024–25, a senior government official said. The fall in output despite marginally higher acreage has been caused by erratic rains and patchy recovery in key growing states, the official added.

 

"When I spoke to state officials in Karnataka and Maharashtra, they said around 40–50?mage was initially reported in some areas, but part of it was later recovered as the weather improved," the official said. The total area under tur is estimated at 4.6 million hectares this year.

 

The official, however, said production was unlikely to fall below 3 million tonnes even in the worst-case scenario. "The Vidarbha belt in Maharashtra is okay, with yields expected to be better than earlier feared," the official said.

 

While the government was earlier expecting the output to touch 3.7 million tonnes because of higher prices and good sowing, heavy and prolonged rains in parts of Karnataka and Jharkhand are likely to have affected yields. "In Karnataka, the crop was still in the growth stage when the rains came. Jharkhand's total output of around 160,000–200,000 tonnes is entirely gone," the official said.

 

Excess rainfall towards the end of the southwest monsoon caused widespread waterlogging in major producing regions, agricultural experts said. "Waterlogging in Karnataka's Bidar and Kalaburagi (districts), and Maharashtra's Yavatmal, Amravati, and Akola (districts) as well as in parts of eastern Uttar Pradesh and Bundelkhand has led to stunted growth and pest infestation, which will pull both yield and production down," agricultural economist Deepak Pareek had earlier told Informist.

 

Trade estimates largely align with the government's assessment, with most pegging the crop at about 3 million tonnes. "That's not bad compared to two years ago, when estimates were around 2.7 million tonnes," the official said.

 

Among pulses, tur is India's most important kharif legume, accounting for about 47% of total kharif pulses output and nearly a third of the acreage under pulses. Maharashtra contributes around 29% of the country's tur production, followed by Karnataka, which contributes 28%, and Uttar Pradesh with 8%.

 

The country's production of the key commodity has been volatile since 2022–23, when a weak monsoon resulted in the output dropping to 3.3 million tonnes from 4.2 million tonnes in 2021–22. Since then, the output has improved only marginally, rising to 3.4 million tonnes in 2023–24 and 3.6 million tonnes in 2024–25.  End

 

Edited by Rajeev Pai

 

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