साला और वनस्पति तेला में आत्मनिर्भरता प्राप्त करने के लिए भारत के प्रमुख क्षेत्रों के सामने कौन सी प्रमुख चुनौतियां हैं? इन चुनौतियों के समाधान भी सुझाएं। What are the major challenges faced by India's agriculture sector to achieve self-sufficiency in pulses and vegetable oils? Suggest measures to address these challenges.

India imports around half of its needs for pulses from countries such as Mozambique, Myanmar and vegetable oils from Brazil, Ukraine, Indonesia. This is due to low self-sufficiency in the production of pulses and oils.

Major challenges faced to address these:

Measures to address these challenges:

Procurement of pulses and oilseeds on the lines of cereals by FCI.

Inventives to produce these crops [@] National Mission on edible oil - oil palm.

Agro processing and storage infrastructure to improve productivity.

Research in these crops to improve output. Increase expenditure in R&D to [legal] agri-GDP [@] Ashoka guletti.

Reducing agricultural subsidies and more direct income support to farmers to switch to these.

Improvement in Kisan Vikas Bandhan and Agriculture attention services.

Improvement in farm income and diversifying of crops is needed in increasing the production of pulses and vegetable oils. Focus of government through schemes is step in right direction.