Over 900 participants from across 30 countries participated in the webinar.
India Pulses and Grains Association (IPGA), the nodal body for India’s pulses trade and industry, hosted THE IPGA KNOWLEDGE SERIES WEBINAR ON KHARIF CROP OUTLOOK .The webinar had a focused discussion on key aspects like sowing, weather impact, impact of monsoon this season, expected production, demand & supply as well as price outlook for Kharif pulses viz., Urad, Moong and Tur.
The panellists includes Dr S. K. Malhotra, Agriculture Commissioner, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Government of India; Dr Makarand Kulkarni Chief Product Planning and Quality, Skymet Weather Services Pvt. Ltd.; Nirav Desai, Managing Partner, GGN Research; B Krishnamurthy, Managing Director, Four-P International Pvt. Ltd., Chennai; Anish Goyal, Di-rector, AgroPure Capital Foods and Mr. Nitin Kalantri, CEO, Kalantry Food Products. The webinar was moderated by commodities expert Manisha Gupta, Editor – Commodities & Currencies, CNBC TV 18.
Bimal Kothari, Vice Chairman, IPGA said, “Our esteemed panelists, domain experts in their respective fields, presented an in-depth analysis on Kharif Pulses including sowing, production, supply & demand and expected price outlook.”
Dr S K Malhotra, Agriculture Commissioner, Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Government of India speaking about the Kharif crop for 2020-21 said, “Pulses sowing for the 2020-12 Kharif pulses has reached 138.62 Lakh Ha, an increase of 6.20 Lakh Ha over last year. As per our 1st Advance Estimates the Kharif Pulses production for 2020-21 should reach 9.20 million tons vis-à-vis 7.72 million tons.
Dr Makarand Kulkarni, Chief – Product Planning & Quality at Skymet Weather Services speaking about the expected pulses production said, “Despite crop damage witnessed in major producing states, higher acreage will help Moong production reach about 1.50 million tons. Similarly, excessive rains have damages Urad crops as well but higher sowing is expected to result in around 2.09 million tons.
Nirav Desai, Managing Partner, GGN Research speaking about the weather conditions and their effect said, we had 18% surplus and timely rainfall in June and a 9.9% deficit in July, due to which we started facing some moisture stress, but then with 26.6% surplus, rains improved in early August, benefitting the crops initially. But excessive rains in August and early September led to flooding in a lot of areas thereby damaging damaged pulses crops.”
Nitin Kalantri, Chief Executive Officer of Kalantry Food Products, speaking about Tur prospects said, “The new Tur crop is expected to arrive in the markets around 15 November and with an expected production of around 4 million tons plus the carryover stocks and the stocks held by NAFED, we are in a comfortable position to meet the domestic demand at stable prices.”
B Krishnamurthy, Managing Director of Four-P International speaking about the situation of Urad said, “Despite a 40,000 Ha increase in sowing, but the excessive rains in August have damaged standing urad crops across many states such as Maharashtra, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, and Karnataka leading to flooding and crop infestations which will pull down the yield of Urad.”
Anish Goyal, Director at AgroPure Capital Foods speaking about the situation for Moong said, “The sowing of Kharif has increased by a 5 Lakh Ha vis-à-vis last year which was due to a variety of reasons including increased MSP, excellent monsoon, good prices in the market, etc. However, due to excessive rains in late-August and early September, there have been disease infestations in Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka and this could impact the final yield of Moong.
