Shortage of pulses in WB : Minister

West Bengal Agriculture Minister Purnendu Bose today conceded that there was shortage of pulses in the state and urged farmers for increasing its cultivation.

Bose, who is on a visit here, asked departmental officers to facilitate farmers so that cultivation of pulses was taken up.

He also stressed on more irrigation for land growing pulses and cultivation of unused land for growing it.

He asked experts at Mohitnagar Research Centre here to train farmers in pulses cultivation and develop improved varities of seed.