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¹ Emekli Öğretim Üyesi DOI : 10.21566/tarbitderg.280511 - Leguminosae family include annual or perennial 12.000 species which can be grown in all the world except arctic regions. Only 200 speceis are cultivated. The cultivated legumes speceis as pulse are bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.), chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.), lentil (Lens culunaris Medik. , Lens esculenta Moench.), fababean (Vicia faba L ), cowpea (Vigna sinensis L.) and pea (Pisum sativum L. ). Pulses have held an importand place in human diet as the main source of vegetable protein in Turkey and world for thousand years. After cereals, pulses are the second crop having the highest cultivation area. In the total field crops area of the world, which is approximately 1.5 million hectares, pulses are planted on 66.8 million hectares with 61.2 million tons production. The most cultivated pulses in the world are bean, chickpea, cowpea, pea, cowpea and faba bean while the most produced are bean, chickpea, pea, cowpea, lentil and faba bean respectively. In the total 24.3 million hectares field crop areas of Turkey, pulses grown on 735 thousand hectares with 1 million tones production. In Turkey, the most seeded pulses are chickpea (388 thousand hectares), lentil (323 thousand hectares), bean (91 thousand hectares), faba bean (3.2 thousand hectares), cowpea (1.9 thousand hectares) and pea (1.1 thousand hectares) while the most produced are chickpea (411 thousand tons), lentil (540 thousand tons), bean (215 thousand tons), faba bean (7 thousand tons), pea (2.9 thousand tons) and cowpea (2.4 thousand tons). Keywords : Pulse, chickpea, protein