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Why this year(2016) is celebrated as international day of pulses

The International Year of Pulses was established as 2016 by the UN in 2015. Legume’s play a vital role in crop rotation, as they all share the trait of fixing nitrogen into the soil. The UN established 2016 as the International Year of Pulses to help spread awareness of this vital role in agriculture.

Pulses are also important for their ability to be stored indefinitely. Once dried, pulses will remain viable so long as they remain that way, at which point they can be cooked into an important source of non-meat protein.
A tribute to the importance of pulses in cultures around the world can be shown by the fact that they’ve been in production since 3300BC, the earliest found example of legume agriculture being found near the Ravi River in Punjab.


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