THE BIG PICTURE
Taking the crown At Pulses 24 in February, Gaurav Jain of AgPulse Analytica spoke of Russia as a potential “king of yellow peas” in the making, given its growing production and potential to increase its exports into China, following the phytosanitary agreement signed in December 2022. According to data from the Russian Grain Union, the Russian Federation exported around 3 MMT of yellow peas in 2023/24, with over 1.1 MMT heading to China and 725 thousand MT to India. This year, Russian pea acreage expanded by as much as 7%, and before recent spells of dry weather and potentially impactful early frosts, it hoped to see a crop of up to 4.5 MMT. The impact of the damaging early frosts is yet to be fully understood, but initial reports have suggested that 20-30% of the crop may have been damaged. Sergey Pluzhnikov,
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