Bumper harvest in India drives down demand for Myanmar pulses

India says a bumper harvest of pulses and beans back home has driven down import demands, forcing New Delhi to impose restrictions on imports from Myanmar. “Price of pulses have come down in India because of the bumper harvest and that has led to quantitative restrictions on imports,” said an Indian embassy press release today. […]

Mung bean output to be increased to meet demand from India

The number of mung bean plantation acres will be increased this winter to meet India’s demand of 10,000 tonnes of mung bean, according to the Rakhine Agriculture Department. India has said it will purchase 10,000 tonnes of mung bean during the next fiscal year, which has prompted the agriculture department to begin the process of […]

Taking the Pulse of Myanmar’s Bean Business

Each morning the floor of the Bayintnaung commodity exchange center in northern Rangoon is jammed with traders and middlemen and buyers looking for the latest prices and deals for some of Burma’s agricultural produce. Famously Burma was once the world’s biggest rice exporter, a position long-lost due to the decades of economic mismanagement under the […]