Damage to India's Pulses Helps Peas
VANCOUVER - Mar 27/15 - SNS -- International field pea markets finished the week's with a moderately firmer undertone against reports of damage from heavy rains to India's pulse crops.
The country's agriculture department estimates almost 8% of the area was affected. Most of the damage was in Rajasthan, with roughly 532,000 hectares hurt by untimely rains. Losses in Uttar Pradesh were pegged at 393,000 hectares and in Madhya Pradesh at 200,000.
Looking at other states, India's agriculture department thinks 5,000 hecatres were lost in Haryana, 2,500 in Himachal Pradesh and just 150 hectares in Uttarakhand.
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