Lentils Supported by Record World Trade
PANAMA - Jan 10/16 - SNS -- International trade in lentils maintained a record pace between harvests in the northern hemisphere and the end of November.
Exports clearances in the August through November period from the world's three largest export producers -- Canada, the United States and Australia -- totalled 1.519 million MT, a massive increase over the 988,408 MT shipped during the same four-month period last season.
Export trade was dominated by Canada, which shipped a record 1.36 million metric tons (MT) of product during the first four months of its 2015-16 marketing year, compared to almost 830,000 MT during the same period last year.
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