The IPGA (Indian Pulses and Grains Association) informed traders that the winter crop chickpea, red lentils, and yellow peas arrivals would start coming into the market by mid of next month. They further said that the pulses crop is excellent this season; therefore, they don’t see any price rise.
By January end 2022, the cultivation area under pulses was reported around 16,50 million hectares, higher than 16,30 million hectares of the previous year. The acreage of chickpeas is higher at 11,33 million hectares than 10,905 million hectares last year. The total area under lentils is 1,75 million hectares against 1,69 million hectares a year ago. Field peas acreage is reported at 1,01 million hectares compared to 1,03 million hectares last season.
The Indian pulses are observing a firm tone as the cold wave and rains with hailstorms in North India have raised the concerns of crops causing damage. Major pulses, such as Pigeon pea, split black gram, Black chickpea, Kabuli Chickpea, Red lentils, Green Moong beans, and White Pea, moved higher during last week ended amid good buying from processors as offtake in dal witnessed at lower rates from retail counters.
According to the traders, the dal millers are stocking up Pigeon peas despite a high moisture content level of 15% to 20% in tur, usually against 10-12%. As predicted earlier, they think that the quality may not improve soon, and the crop is low this year. Untimely rains in September and October this year impacted tur crops in Latur and other districts of Marathwada by at least 20%.
It is reported that rain has damaged chickpeas crops on 69,370 hectares in Rajasthan, 111,000 hectares in Uttar Pradesh, 418,800 hectares in Madhya Pradesh, 97,676 hectares in Haryana, and 5,765 hectares in Maharashtra.
As per the first advance production estimate released by the Rajasthan Agriculture Department, gram production may be up to 2,38 million MT in the state, compared to 2,25 million MT during 2020-21 and 2,65 million MT in 2019-20.
OATA Myanmar wants the Indian Government to increase the import quota for Black gram & Pigeon to 500,000 MT & 200,000 MT, respectively. Last year, India had signed a five-year memorandum of understanding with Myanmar to annually import 250,000 MT of urad and 100,000 MT of tur from the neighbouring country.
On the import front, traders expect the Government to import a total of 650,000 MT of tur from major exporting countries such as Tanzania and Sudan till March-end.
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