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Pulses, which are next to cereals, are important protein rich crops of the world. The major pulses of the world are peas, beans, gram, mungbeans, urdbeans and cowpeas while the minor ones include like horsegram (hulga/kulthi). The production share of each pulse is shown in Fig.1.1., which clearly indicate the dominance of bean, pea and chickpea. Improvement in yield and productivity of pulses is the need of the hour, but for this marginal land, aberrant rainfall, non availability of improved seeds, less or no input and poor crop management are the main constraints. Amongst pulses horsegram (Macrotyloma uniflorum (Lam.) Verdc) is highly neglected crop throughout the world and hence require more emphasis on its improvement as it has nutritional and medicinal value too.