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Global trends in production and trade of major grain legumes

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Title Global trends in production and trade of major grain
legumes
 
Creator Gowda, C L L
Rao, P P
Bhagavatula, S
 
Subject Food legumes
 
Description Production trends in grain legumes — pulses, groundnuts and soybean — have followed an increasing
trend with the global production doubling from 148 million tons in 1980-82 to 3 10 million tons in 2004-06.
The increase was led by increases in soybean production which increased from 87 million tons to 214 million
tons due to an increase in the demand for protein meals and oils from the EU and the US feed sectors and
the appearance of new producers like India, China, Argentina and Brazil. Consequently, the share of developing
countries in global grain legume production has increased from 55% in 1980-82 to 65% in 2004-06. Growth
in the global production of pulses has been the slowest among the grain legumes, growing at 1.05% per
annum between 980 to 2006. The emergence of countries such as Canada and Australia, the area expansion
under pulses in Africa, and the export oriented production of the South East Asian countries have contributed
to the increase in the global pulse production. The largest pulse producers are still the developing countries
and their share of the global pulse production is largely unchanged at around 70%. However, yield levels and
yield growth rates are considerably higher in the developed countries. Grain legumes are traded in different
forms such as kernels/seeds, cakes and meals, and oils. Trade in seeds/kernels of grain legumes has increased
with nearly 20% of production quantities being traded in 2000-05. However, this figure masks the contrary
trends in the trade patterns of individual legumes and between regions. Among the legumes, exports in
soybean have increased with 31% of soybean being traded, owing to increased demand from the feed sector,
with Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay emerging as major exporters. In this paper, an analysis has been made
on the global and regional production, yield trends, global trade and price trends of grain legumes
 
Date 2009
 
Type Conference or Workshop Item
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/5350/1/Global_trends_in_production_and%20trade.pdf
Gowda, C L L and Rao, P P and Bhagavatula, S (2009) Global trends in production and trade of major grain legumes. In: International Conference on Grain Legumes: Quality Improvemen , Value Addition and Trade, 14-16 Feb 2009, Kanpur, India.