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India wants made in Mozambique lentils – Joseph Hanlon
8:30 CAT | 27 Jun 2016
An Indian delegation headed by Consumer Affairs Secretary Hem Pande is in Maputo to assess short-term and long-term measures for importing pulses to meet the growing demand back home, according to the Indian press. The team is looking at both leasing land and at contract farming.
India produced 18 mn tonnes of pulses in the year July 2015 to June 2016, but demand was 24 mn tonnes. Prices are rising and supply is unlikely to catch up with demand; India is importing substantial amounts of green and red lentils and other pulses.
India is trying to make government-to-government long-term supply deals with Malawi, Mozambique and Myanmar, with the governments guaranteeing supply. This is unlikely to be acceptable to Mozambique, which, unlike India, does not have a public trading agency. (Indian Express 21 June; Deccan Herald, 22 June; Quartz India 23 June)
Business Standard (18 June) reported that previous Indian attempts to lease farmland in Africa had failed. Leasing proposals in Mozambique now would be controversial and difficult. Contract farming proposals, however, would probably be welcomed, but India and its agents would need to supply a whole package and guarantee to buy (as with tobacco, the main contract crop now).
By: Joseph Hanlon
Source: News reports & clippings
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