Close X
Monday, November 25, 2024
ADVT 
National

Canadian Pulse Farmers Hoping India, Canada Find Agreement By June

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 07 Mar, 2018 12:16 PM
    OTTAWA — Canadian pulse farmers are in the midst of deciding if it is even worth planting peas and lentils this spring, as steep tariffs from their No. 1 customer cut deep into their profit margins.
     
     
    However Gordon Bacon, CEO of Pulse Canada. says there is some hope that an end is in sight for a long-standing irritant between India and Canada which requires Canadian farmers to treat their pulses with chemicals for pests that don't actually exist here.
     
     
    Bacon says India's requirement that all pulse imports be treated with methyl bromide, an ozone-depleting pesticide, has been in place for 15 years but Canada's concern was only raised at the highest levels in India when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau brought it onto the agenda in his talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi last month in New Delhi.
     
     
     
     
    Bacon says India will renew its pesticide requirements in June and hopes Canada and India will reach their promised agreement before then, but he wants to see exactly what Canada is now doing to make that happen.
     
     
    He says there is no value for Canadian farmers to export pulses to India as long as the pesticide requirement is in place.
     
     
    Canadian exports of peas and lentils to India plummeted 92 per cent in the last two months of 2017 compared with the year before after India slapped a 33 per cent import duty on lentils and 50 per cent on peas .

    MORE National ARTICLES

    Toddler Breaks Leg After Boot Sucked Into Escalator At Vancouver Airport

    Toddler Breaks Leg After Boot Sucked Into Escalator At Vancouver Airport
    A Calgary woman is reminding parents about the dangers of escalators after her toddler's foot became stuck in one and he broke his leg.

    Toddler Breaks Leg After Boot Sucked Into Escalator At Vancouver Airport

    Alberta Shrugs Off B.C. Legal Challenge On Wine Ban, Says Much More At Stake

    Alberta Shrugs Off B.C. Legal Challenge On Wine Ban, Says Much More At Stake
    Alberta's economic development minister is shrugging off a legal challenge filed by British Columbia over Alberta's ban on wine from that province.

    Alberta Shrugs Off B.C. Legal Challenge On Wine Ban, Says Much More At Stake

    Sikh Kirpan Ban In Quebec Legislature Upheld By Top Provincial Court

    Superior Court Justice Pierre Journet affirmed the authority of the legislature to "exclude kirpans from its precincts as an assertion of parliamentary privilege over the exclusion of strangers."

    Sikh Kirpan Ban In Quebec Legislature Upheld By Top Provincial Court

    Justin Trudeau Announces Two-way Investment Deal With India Worth $1 Billion

    Justin Trudeau Announces Two-way Investment Deal With India Worth $1 Billion
    MUMBAI, India — Some of India's biggest companies say they will invest more than $250 million in Canada in the coming years in everything from pulp mills to pharmaceuticals and the IT sector.

    Justin Trudeau Announces Two-way Investment Deal With India Worth $1 Billion

    WATCH: Justin Trudeau Is For One United India, Looking Forward To Meet Punjab CM

    WATCH: Justin Trudeau Is For One United India, Looking Forward To Meet Punjab CM
    The Canadian prime minister’s schedule includes just half-a-day of official engagements in New Delhi.

    WATCH: Justin Trudeau Is For One United India, Looking Forward To Meet Punjab CM

    Vacationing Calgary Man Dies In Mexico Following Sudden Illness

    Vacationing Calgary Man Dies In Mexico Following Sudden Illness
    Troy Black was with his wife, Lindsay, in Puerto Vallarta when he began vomiting blood on Thursday. Doctors then found a tear in his esophagus, said his friend Jonathan Denis, a lawyer and Alberta's former justice minister.

    Vacationing Calgary Man Dies In Mexico Following Sudden Illness