February 8, 2022
Tareq Awad of Fruitimpex joins Global Garbanzo's Navneet Chhabra and the GPC's Dario Bard to discuss Russia's 2021 kabuli chickpea crop, as well as how exports are going in the current marketing year and the outlook for the 2022 planting season.
0:50 Russia’s chickpea crop harvest typically wraps up in September of every year. Could you tell us how the 2021 kabuli chickpea crop turned out in terms of volume in metric tons, caliber size distribution and overall quality?
2:25 How does this compare with the previous year’s crop and the average?
3:11 And including carryover from 2020-21 and accounting for domestic demand, what was Russia’s total kabuli chickpea export availability heading into 2021-22?
4:01 How have Russia’s kabuli chickpea exports been in 2021-22 and can you give us a sense of remaining stocks?
4:55 What export markets are you watching in 2021/22?
5:58 Can you give us a sense of current export prices FOB and how you see them evolving?
6:49 How about growers? Have they been selling or holding onto their chickpeas?
7:21 The sowing of the 2022 will get underway next month, right? How many hectares do you expect will be seeded to kabuli chickpeas?
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