Trade Talk with Andac Kolukisa/
An Update on Turkey's Kabuli Chickpea Harvest


Dario Bard

Reporter

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Special guest Andac Kolukisa joins the GPC's Dario Bard and Global Garbanzo's Navneet Chhabra to discuss Turkey's kabuli chickpea harvest. With 85% of the crop harvested, Andac provides yield and production estimates, describes the quality of the crop, recaps the 2019/20 campaign's exports, and gives us his thoughts on the market outlook for 2020/21.

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0:35 DARIO: Andac, for starters, could you tell us how the harvest went this year? What was the weather like and did the crop come off the fields during the normal harvest window?

 
2:22 NAVNEET: What were the yields like and what do you estimate is the total production? I heard there were problems with yields.
 
4:22 DARIO: Could you give us a sense of the quality of the crop and the caliber sizes of the chickpeas? I heard the quality is better this year, but sizes are smaller.
 
5:50 NAVNEET: What about the minimum support price for 2020? I heard the TMO has stricter quality parameters this year and may not be willing to buy as much.
 
7:29 DARIO: For the 2019/20 campaign that just ended, could you give us a sense of the level of chickpea exports and if there are carry-in stocks heading into 2020/21?
 
9:33 NAVNEET: What are the major export destinations and how much do they normally buy in a year? Could you give us a sense of export volumes comparison to last year?
 

12:12 DARIO: What is the market outlook for the 2020/21 crop?

 

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