3.95 lakh tonnes of urad exported to Myanmar in five months

04-Jun-2024 07:07 PM

Yangon. With the support of India's tremendous demand, there is a great export of urad and tuvar from Myanmar. According to the available data, in the first five months of the current calendar year i.e. January-May 2024, the export of urad from Myanmar increased to more than 3.95 lakh tonnes. Most of it was imported into India.

About 74 thousand tonnes of urad was exported from Myanmar in January, which after declining to 52 thousand tonnes in February, increased to 80 thousand tonnes in March and improved to 88 thousand tonnes in April. Urad exports are expected to jump to 1.03 lakh tonnes in May 2024. This is the first time in the current year that urad exports have reached above one lakh tonnes.

Most of the urad is exported from Myanmar to India, where its duty-free and uncontrolled import has already been allowed till March 31, 2025. Similarly, most of the tur exports from Myanmar are to India. Like urad, its import has also been made duty free till March 2025.

About 1.63 lakh tonnes of tur (tuvar) was exported from Myanmar in the first five months of the current year. This includes shipments of 31 thousand tonnes in January 2024, 33 thousand tonnes in February, 30 thousand tonnes in March, 28 thousand tonnes in April and 41 thousand tonnes in May. There has been a good production of urad and tuvar in Myanmar this year and there is a good exportable stock of it.

Although the import of moong in India has been banned since February 2022, while it was being imported well before that, but it is being regularly exported from Myanmar to many other countries including China. In the five months of January-May 2024, a little more than 3.29 lakh tonnes of moong was shipped from Myanmar.

This included exports of 34 thousand tonnes in January, 64 thousand tonnes in February, 95 thousand tonnes in March, 71 thousand tonnes in April and 65 thousand tonnes in May.