The pace of export of pulses from Canada is slower than last year

07-Aug-2024 04:07 PM

Vancouver. Pulses are being exported regularly from Canada, the major producer and exporter of peas and lentils, but its pace is somewhat slow.

According to the report of the government agency - Stats Can, in the marketing season of 2023-24, till June 2024, 23.81 lakh tonnes of peas were exported from Canada, which was less than the shipment of 24.04 lakh tonnes in the same period of 2022-23 season.

Similarly, in May 2024, 1.19 lakh tonnes of peas were exported from Canada, which fell by more than half in June to 50,452 tonnes. In June, 13,382 tonnes of peas were exported from Canada to Bangladesh, 10,407 to India and 7507 tonnes to the US.

The exportable surplus stock of peas there has reduced considerably. As far as lentils are concerned, a huge decline is also being seen in its export from Canada.

According to the data of Stats Can, in the current marketing season, till June 2024, the total export of lentils from Canada could reach only 15.40 lakh tonnes, which was much less than the shipment of 21.02 lakh tonnes till the same month in 2023.

This clearly indicates that there was a huge decline in the production of lentils in Canada during the 2023-24 season as compared to 2022-23. Stats Can had estimated its production there to shrink to 16.71 lakh tonnes.

However, during June, the export of lentils from Canada increased from 1.18 lakh tonnes to around 1.37 lakh tonnes as compared to May.

In June, the highest 60,371 tonnes of lentils were exported from Canada to Bangladesh, 36,852 tonnes to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and 12,068 tonnes to India.

In May, 9 thousand tons of Kabuli Chana was exported from Canada which fell to around 8 thousand tons in June.

This included shipment of 3096 tons to the US, 850 tons to Rajasthan and 612 tons to Italy. On an annual basis also, a decrease of 11 thousand tons was recorded in the export.