Question

_________ is the country engaged in the production and export of the largest quantity of pulses in the world.
A. India
B. Pakistan
C. China
D. USA

Answer 1

Hint: It ranks in the first position in the production as well as consumption of pulses in the world. It accounts for 27-28 percent of the global pulse production. One of its states accounts for 23 percent of the total pulse production in the country. Hence, it is the largest pulse producing state in the country.

Complete Step by Step answer:
India is well known for agro-ecological diversity. It is the world's largest producer of pulses, milk, and jute. Pulses are grown in every corner of the globe. They have a strong record of nurturing people all over the world for centuries. Moreover, pulses were among the first crops which were cultivated as far back as 11,000 years ago. In the past three decades, there has been a rapid growth in the production of pulses. In the past ten years alone, there has been a production of between 50 and 60 million tonnes of pulses every year in the world. Moreover, it ranks as the second-largest producer of rice, wheat, sugarcane, groundnut, vegetables, fruit, and cotton. Furthermore, it is one of the leading producers of spices, fish, poultry, livestock, and plantation crops. Worth $ 2.1 trillion, India ranks as the world's third-largest economy after the US and China.

Therefore, Option A is the correct answer.

Note: All of you please note that the world's most important pulse exporters include Argentina, France, Ethiopia, and Turkey also.