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Myanmar aims to export 1.89 mln tons of pulses in 2024-25 fiscal year

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2024-06-11 14:54

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YANGON, June 11 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar has targeted to export 1.89 million tons of pulses in the current 2024-25 fiscal year starting April, the official daily The Global New Light of Myanmar reported on Tuesday.

The country's Ministry of Commerce was working with the Myanmar Pulses, Beans, Maize and Sesame Seeds Merchants Association to meet export targets, the report said.

In Myanmar, domestic consumption accounts for 20 percent of the country's pulses production, while 80 percent is exported, it said.

From the start of the current fiscal year until May 31, Myanmar earned 412 million U.S. dollars from exporting over 470,000 tons of pulses, according to figures from the Ministry of Commerce.

In the previous fiscal year 2023-24, Myanmar earned 1.48 billion dollars from exporting 1.7 million tons of pulses, according to the Ministry of Commerce.
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