Chile Dependent on Lentil Imports
WASHINGTON - May 120/11 - SNS -- Chile is almost entirely dependent on lentil improts to meet its consumption neds, with Canada the dominant supplier, notes the U.S. agricultural attache for the country in a recent report.
"For some years now the cultivation of this legume has come to a standstill at around a thousand hectares," the report said, citing the April 25 edition of El Campo Magazine, published by El Mercurio Newspaper.
"Low production and high demand means that the bulk of the consumption is satisfied by imported lentils from Canada.
"According to a study carried out by ODEPA (Chilean Office of Agricultural Planning), conditions may be right to increase domestic production. Namely that low international availability may increase profits for local cultivation."
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