By Commodity News Service Canada
WINNIPEG, Oct. 12 (CNS Canada) – Australian farmers could be about to produce almost 30 per cent more lentils than what was earlier forecast by the Australian Bureau of Agriculture and Resource Economics and Sciences.
Pulse Australia’s forecast for the country’s 2017 lentil production was pegged at 540,000 tonnes. That’s up 28.8 per cent from a September estimate from ABARES of 419,000 tonnes.
The revisions better reflect the good conditions in lentil-growing areas of South Australia and Victoria, Pulse Australia said. By comparison, Canada is expected to produce 2.44 million tonnes of lentils in 2017.
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