Kazakhstan’s lentil surge/
A rising force reshaping global trade flows

Backed by a crop approaching 700 KMT and record early-season exports, Kazakhstan is now exerting competitive pressure on traditional suppliers across Türkiye, Europe, the Middle East, and beyond — with clear signals that global trade flows are shifting.

Lentils Update/
GPC members-only webinar

Join GPC’s members-only webinar, Lentils Update, on Wednesday, December 3, at 11 am GMT. Discover the latest insights on harvest updates, trade estimates, oversupply impacts, India’s purchasing trends, and short-term price outlooks across India, Türkiye, Canada, and Australia.

Shanghai Pulses Congress recordings/
Lifting the lid on lentils

The lentils panel dissected the policies, crops, and trade pressures currently shaping global dynamics: Australia’s weather-driven recovery, India’s chana and pigeon pea influence, Russia’s tight stocks, Türkiye’s export ban… Explore the full exchange for all the insights.

7 Quick-fire facts on the Turkish pulse harvest/
From supply strength to transit trade

Yusuf Memis of Bashan Agro gives us a rundown on Türkiye’s lentil and chickpea outlook. He discusses a strong year on the supply side, production estimates — and how price dynamics are shaping both domestic and transit trade.

Turkish export quotas update/
Chickpeas almost double, red lentils limited; green lentils & white beans closed

The Turkish government today announced its updated export quotas for lentils, chickpeas and white beans. Dr. Andac Kolukisa gives us the lowdown, sharing his insights into the news.

Pulse Atlas Data in Focus/
Türkiye’s surge in kabuli imports

Exclusive Pulse Atlas data shows a huge monthly increase in Türkiye’s kabuli imports for 2023 compared to previous years. Speaking to trade experts, we take a look at the influencing factors.

Pulses 23/
The Red Lentils panel

With Türkiye allowing exports of domestic red lentils, will imports mainly be for re-exports? Do increased exports suggest India might be moving away from being a net importer? How will activity in Russia -despite sanctions- impact trade? Our experts explore the key topics on the red lentils global scenario.

Global consumption & imports/
Increase following two difficult years

Russian invasion of Ukraine/
Pressure on an already tight global pulse market

Gaurav Jain of AG Pulse Analytica shares his insight into the effect of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on the global pulse market.

Resilient Tanzania/
Defies the pandemic, tops pulses exports

When the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic and almost the entire world moved into lockdowns, Tanzania went against the grain with the government deciding to try a relaxed method of containing the virus by leaving the economy largely open.

Market Update/
Turkish farmers and traders respond to government’s chickpea restrictions

The CSCA Convention 2021/
Day 1

The GPC covered the CSCA’s Pulse and Special Crops Convention 2021 on September 8 and 9, 2021.

Market Update/
An Early Look at India’s 2021 Rabi Chickpea and Lentil Crops

With harvest at about the mid-point, the GPC checks in with industry sources on the ground.

GPC Pulses 2.0/
White Beans Global Outlook

Watch the recording of this session now on the Pulse Pod!

GPC Pulses 2.0/
Kabuli Chickpeas Global Outlook

This year, with reduced production in India and Mexico, and lower seeding intentions in the U.S., Canada, Türkiye and Russia, there was an expectation that market conditions would improve.

GPC Pulses 2.0/
Red Lentil Panel

Demand is the big question for the red lentil trade in 2020/21. Much depends on developments in India.

Trade Talk with Andac Kolukisa/
An Update on Türkiye's Kabuli Chickpea Harvest

Special guest Andac Kolukisa joins the GPC's Dario Bard and Global Garbanzo's Navneet Chhabra to discuss Türkiye's kabuli chickpea harvest

Market Update/
Türkiye’s 2020 Red Lentil Harvest

The world’s first exportable supplies of red lentils come to market in uncertain times.

The impact of drought/
Türkiye’s 2019 Pulse Harvest

Drought conditions impacted this year’s crop yields.

Türkiye’s pulse trade: chickpeas, white beans, MRLs, and future markets/
in 6 key facts

Tuba Memis of Memisoglu Tarim unpacks Türkiye’s chickpea scarcity, a white bean deficit, and why the pulse middleman will up its imports in 2025.

Turkish lentils survive drought scare and the potential of a new Syria/
An update on Turkish pulses in 2025

Mehmet Sonmez of Armada Foods shares an outlook on the Turkish pulse market ahead of its upcoming lentil harvest. He talks us through changes to trade dynamics, hopes for the harvest, and whether Turkish traders will benefit from regime change in neighbouring Syria.

Turkish red lentils and chickpeas in 2024/
Yildiz Agro on prices, new markets and growing consumption

We speak to Baran Öncü, General Manager of Yildiz Agro about opportunities and challenges in Turkish pulses and why he thinks convenience is key to boosting consumption.

Turkish pulses in 7 key insights/
Mehmet Sonmez on chickpeas, lentils and the re-export market in 2024

Lara Gilmour talks to Mehmet Sonmez, Board Member at Armada Foods, about the economic situation, the chickpea crop and the lentil re-export program in 2024.

Turkish red lentil and chickpea markets/
An overview with Dr. Andac Kolukisa

The Managing Director of Natural Gida shares his outlook on Türkiye’s lentil and chickpea production and the situation for import and export in 2024.

Türkiye pulse harvest update with Tuba Memis/
“The weather continues to be very hot, especially for green lentils and chickpeas”

Tuba Memis of Memisoglu Tarim fills us in on the ongoing lentil, white bean and chickpea crops and the upcoming harvest

Türkiye’s lentil and chickpea markets in 2024/
“There’s a definite drop in re-exports”

Luke Wilkinson chats with Yusuf Memis, Foreign Trade Director of Bashan Agro about his predictions for this year's Turkish lentil crop, and how the Red Sea crisis is adding extra costs to pulse exports.

"The shortage of large calibers had an immediate effect on prices"/
Zooming in on Türkiye’s kabuli chickpea crop

As part of the our series on global kabuli chickpea markets, Navneet Chhabra of Global Garbanzo and Dario Bard of the GPC reached out to Armada Foods’ Fethi Sonmez to discuss Türkiye’s 2023 production and trade outlook.

Harish Tahiliani of Arab India Spices/
“Lentil prices will reach a level that creates demand restriction”

CEO of Dubai-based Arab India Spices and GPC board member, Harish Tahiliani, sits down to share his insights on this year’s high lentil prices, a depleted Kharif crop, and how commitment is the key to success.

Tuba Memis on the 2023 harvest/
“Turkish red lentils will be the most competitive in the domestic market”

Tuba Memis, General Manager of Memisoglu Tarim, discusses the Turkish harvest, resilient Russian exports, and why Türkiye will be this year’s foremost chickpea provider.

Could Türkiye’s chickpea production be down 20%?/
Fethi Somnez on the upcoming harvest and the outlook for red lentils

After his recent appointment to the board, Fethi Sonmez sat down with GPC to share his insights on the upcoming harvest, Türkiye’s fiscal health, and why Canadian imports will be subdued in 2023.

“Chickpeas will be important this year, for sure”/
Yusuf Memis on Türkiye’s 2023 harvest

The GPC sat down to chat Yusuf Memis about the upcoming Turkish harvest, humanitarian aid, and the advantages of being the middle-man between east and west.

Pablo Fernández of La Macarena/
“See you at the Americas Pulses Congress - we’ll be on the chickpea panel”!

Ahead of his panelist role at the Americas Pulses Congress in Cancun, Pablo Fernández spoke to Luke Wilkinson about the upcoming chickpea harvest and the storied history of his family business.

Good yields, great quality & competitive prices/
Arbel’s outlook on Türkiye’s 2022 kabuli chickpea crop

GPC’s Dario Bard and Global Garbanzo’s Navneet Chhabra talk to Mert Hazar of Arbel to get the lowdown on Türkiye’s 2022 kabuli chickpea crop and its effect on the global shortage.

Fertilizer, government policy and the lira crisis/
The surprising factors benefiting red lentils in Türkiye

Mehmet Sonmez is a Partner at Armada Foods, one of the largest pulses companies in Türkiye. He has been with his family’s business for three years, continuing a proud tradition. Jesse Sam spoke to him in April to learn more about the company and their outlook for the red lentils market. Armada Foods was a strategic sponsor at Pulses 22, supporting the Red Lentils panel.

Jeff Van Pevenage thinks the pulse business is cool/
And he’s not the only one

The CEO of Columbia Grain on why more and more young people are getting into the industry and what advice he’s passing on to his son.

European self-sufficiency can be a reality - but it will take years/
Henk van Leeuwen on the complications of EU tariffs

Henk van Leeuwen joined the company in 1990 and Kira Nash spoke to him about EU tariffs, European self-sufficiency, the French pulses market and the shipping industry.

A unique market/
Carlo Scazzola on canning pulses in Italy

Kira Nash spoke with Carlo Scazzola, president of Italian brokers Agras Pulses, which was established in 1984 as part of Agras group and deals largely in pulse exports into Italy, about Italian consumption, export issues and the intricacies of the canning industry.

Trade Talk with Faisal Anis Majeed/
The challenges and opportunities of the Pakistani pulses industry

With a population of over 220 million — the fifth largest in the world — Pakistan is one of the most significant importers of pulses in the world.

Trade Talk with Hunain Khatri/
Trading in Pakistan and the outlook for 2022

Hunain Khatri has more than a decade’s trading experience in Pakistan, spanning everything from chemicals to crops. He is currently MD of SS Indenters’ foreign trading business, where he oversees more than 350,000 metric tonnes in global pulses trading every year. Jesse Sam caught up with him briefly in late December to get his outlook for the first quarter of the new year.

Sustainability and striving for a brighter, greener future/
Australia’s FTA Food Solutions on the upcoming harvest

FTA Food Solutions is part of the HSK Ward Group, a family business that stems back nearly 170 years and six generations, with its sister company Ward McKenzie. Since its humble beginnings in 1852, the family business is now a multinational importer, distributor and exporter.

Trade Talk with Mert Hazar/
Arbel's perspective on the Turkish pulses market

Mert Hazar is the Director of Arbel’s import and export trading business, putting him in charge of one of the most significant pulses trading operations in Türkiye.

Trade talk with Karim Asaad/
The importance of community support in the pulses industry

Speaking from his Kimpex International office in Cairo, Brooks & Kempton’s founder and CEO talked to Madaline Dunn about trade, perseverance and the importance of community support in the pulses industry.

Trade Talk with Fethi Sonmez/
The CEO of Armada Foods on COVID-19, Türkiye's pulse seeding and the trade outlook for 2021

Türkiye is one of the world's major pulse distribution hubs, with quick delivery times into North Africa, Europe and the Middle East.

Fethi Sonmez of Armada Foods/
An overview of Türkiye's pulse sector

Turkish chickpeas and GPC Young Professionals/
An interview with Andac Kolukisa from Natural Gida

Trade Talk with Navneet Chhabra/
The Kabuli Specialist

Soon after he established his brokerage firm in 2010, Navneet decided he would focus on just one commodity: kabuli chickpeas.