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India pins hopes on Myanmar pulses -Jitendra

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Desperate to check growing prices, the country plans to encourage domestic players to grow pulses in Myanmar despite having bad experiences in the past

Faced with shortage of pulses and increasing prices, India plans to encourage private companies to acquire land for exclusively growing pulses in Myanmar and supply them back to India. Myanmar is the largest exporter of pulses to India. According to a senior agriculture ministry official, India sent a delegation to the neighbouring country on May 19 to broker a long-term arrangement for government-to-government procurement of pulses. The official said the country plans to import nearly half of its pulses from Myanmar in the next few years. “But it is in a premature stage,” he adds.

Siraj Hussain, former secretary of Union agriculture ministry, says the idea of encouraging private companies to grow pulses in Myanmar had been in discussion for the past five years. “But the problem was how to ensure competitive prices to these companies in the long-term,” says Hussain.

Private companies have welcomed the move. “Profit margins are huge in producing outside and importing into India,” says Nitesh Patel, president, Gujarat Pulses Producing Associations. “Right now, our members are engaged in contract farming in African countries such as Tanzania, Mozambique and Sudan. After government facilitation, we are willing to move to Myanmar,” he adds. Currently, two Indian companies—Tata International and ETG—are operating in Myanmar on their own.

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