{"id":34860,"date":"2026-07-13T19:42:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T14:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/army-seeks-to-add-organic-pulses-to-troops-diet-india-news\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T19:42:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T14:12:38","slug":"army-seeks-to-add-organic-pulses-to-troops-diet-india-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/army-seeks-to-add-organic-pulses-to-troops-diet-india-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Army seeks to add organic pulses to troops\u2019 diet | India News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-132368586,imgsize-1464291,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/ani.jpg\" alt=\"Army seeks to add organic pulses to troops\u2019 diet\" title=\"Army seeks to add organic pulses to troops\u2019 diet\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Ta7d_ img_cptn\"><span title=\"Army seeks to add organic pulses to troops\u2019 diet\">Army seeks to add organic pulses to troops\u2019 diet<\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NEW DELHI: In a move towards sustainable nutrition, the Indian Army has made its first-ever request to the consumer affairs department \u2014 responsible for creating and maintaining the country\u2019s buffer stock of pulses \u2014 for the supply of organic pulses for its personnel.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"2\"\/>Organic pulses, grown without using synthetic pesticides, improve heart health, regulate blood sugar and aid weight management.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"4\"\/>TOI has learnt that work has started to procure and deliver organic pulses to the over 12.5-lakh strong force as a pilot, initially for a few tonnes. Govt cooperatives Nafed and NCCF have been tasked to identify sources for procurement of organic pulses and work out the supply chain from storage to delivery.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"8\"\/>\u201cDiscussions are going on with some farmer producer organisations (FPOs), other such entities and farmers producing organic. The procurement price of these pulses would be higher. But with the Army indicating to buy this, everything will be worked out,\u201d said a person involved in the process. \u201cOrganic pulses have lesser shelf life and so we have to have a proper supply chain from farmgate to the consumption point. Proper certification of such pulses is also key.\u201d<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"12\"\/>Officials said the pilot, in a way, will help put an institutional requirement in place to encourage farmers to produce organic pulses as there will be assured demand. There are over half a dozen FPOs in Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand which have over 100 tonnes of organic pulses, including chana, green gram, moong, urad and tur, they said.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"15\"\/>Current;y, organic agricultural products can use \u201cNatural Farming Certified\u201d only after \u201cPGS India Natural\u201d status to a product is assigned. <!-- -->This is a decentralised, peer-reviewed certification system for chemical-free farming under the agriculture ministry. It verifies that a farmer\u2019s crops are grown without synthetic fertilisers.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"19\"\/>Organic products are also certified by independent third-party agencies govt accredited under govt\u2019s National Programme for Organic Production (NPOP) and are typically sold under the Jaivik Bharat mark governed by FSSAI, the country\u2019s food safety regulator.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"21\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/army-seeks-to-add-organic-pulses-to-troops-diet\/articleshow\/132368594.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Army seeks to add organic pulses to troops\u2019 diet NEW DELHI: In a move towards sustainable nutrition, the Indian Army has made its first-ever request to the consumer affairs department \u2014 responsible for creating and maintaining the country\u2019s buffer stock of pulses \u2014 for the supply of organic pulses for its personnel.Organic pulses, grown without [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-country"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}