Torrential Rains Put Mexico’s Fall-Winter Pulse Crops at Risk
Widespread flooding and infrastructure damage reported in key pulse-growing states.
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Widespread flooding and infrastructure damage reported in key pulse-growing states.
Mexico has two growing cycles: the spring-summer cycle, when practically all of Mexico’s dry beans are grown, and the fall-winter cycle, when its chickpea crop is produced together with a smaller dry bean crop than in the spring-summer cycle.
A pilot program is in the works for 2020.
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Drought conditions impacted this year’s crop yields.
GPC reports on the country’s recently harvested pea and chickpea crops.
As October comes to a close, the pea and lentil harvests are nearly complete, and the bean harvest is past the halfway mark.
Held in the major chickpea growing province of Cordoba, it was the most highly attended CLERA event there to date.
As the U.S. dry bean harvest picks up, GPC checks in on the top Great Northern bean growing state.
Rains are slowing the combines and eroding the quality of the pulse crops still out in the fields.
Harvest of the third and final crop of 2018/19 is underway.
With the pulse harvest well underway, GPC checked in with the Northern Pulse Growers Association.