About this Produce
Green gram, Vigna radiate is an important pulses crop in India, believed to have originated from India. It is short duration legume crop grown mostly as a fallow crop in rotation with rice. Similar to the leguminous pulses, the green gram crop enriches the soil’s nitrogen content. It is grown mostly in the Asian region traditionally although its cultivation has spread to Africa and Americas in the recent times. More than 70% of world’s green gram production comes from India.
India is the world’s largest producer as well as consumer of green gram. It is mainly cultivated in a cereal-pulse cropping system primarily to conserve soil nutrients and utilizes the left-over soil moisture particularly, after rice cultivation. While it can be grown in all the seasons, majority of green gram cultivation falls in either Rabi (Rabi harvest are agricultural crops that are sown in winter and harvested in the spring in India) or late Rabi seasons particularly in peninsular India.
Mung production in the country is largely (70%) concentrated in five states viz, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat and Bihar. As per the latest available estimates, Rajasthan, Maharashtra occupies the first two positions.
