India has about 10,000 pulses mills, with each having production capacity of 10-20 tonnes a day. To cut down the time lag between production of pulses and its final consumption, central government is planning to enhance the milling capacity in producing states. This will help in ensuring that the once the unmilled pulses are sold in the market, it takes less time to reach the final consumers. Milling of pulses mostly involves removal of the outer kernel and splitting the beans in two halves. In traditional mills, the process sometimes leads to just 65-70% recovery, while this goes up to 90 per cent in modern mills. In other words, because of inadequate modern milling capacities around 25-30 per cent of total production is lost.