Jan 29, 2024 | Featured, Market reports
AUSTRALIA exported $80.4 billion worth of agriculture, fisheries and forestry (AFF) products in the year to 30 June 2023, a record high, and a 17 percent increase on the previous year, according to Australian Government figures. Boosting the total was record crop...
Jan 14, 2024 | Featured, Market reports
INDIA has extended its tariff-free period for lentils by 12 months to 31 March 2025, a move which has been welcomed by the Australian pulse industry. India is Australia’s biggest market by far for lentils, and in recent years has been the destination for close to half...
Dec 5, 2023 | Featured, Market reports
After signing memorandum of understandings (MoUs) with Mozambique, Malawi and Myanmar for importing pulses, India has approached Argentina and Brazil for deals under which the South American countries will undertake to grow tur and urad varieties with an obligation to...
Dec 4, 2023 | Featured, Industry news
Over the past fortnight, growing regions in Central and southern Qld and northern NSW have had at least 50mm of rain, and some have seen totals in excess of 100mm. Deacon Seeds general manager Mark Schmidt said most growers in southern Qld and northern NSW...
Nov 29, 2023 | Featured, Industry news
India witnesses an extraordinary surge in pulse imports, with volumes soaring by 113% in H1 2023-24, valued at over $1.26 billion. Led by lentils, arhar, and urad, the import landscape is reshaping, driven by erratic rains impacting domestic production. Slow tur...
Oct 25, 2023 | Featured, Industry news
IN ITS INTERNATIONAL Agricultural Trade Report released this week, USDA has confirmed that Australia, India, and Canada are the world’s three largest chickpea exporters, and accounted for more than 40 percent of the world’s shipments in 2022. The agency has...
