Luke Wilkinson spoke to Branko Pavic, Import/Export Manager, and Sebastian Pavic, Sales Manager, about Chile’s post-quarantine overstock, chickpea mayonnaise and the ready-to-eat revolution.

In our continuing series of conversations, the senior editor at the Hindu Business Line provides an update on rabi sowing progress, discusses the COVID-19 situation in India and takes us behind some of the recent headlines.

"We struggle with the idea that healthy food is expensive..Healthy food should be a right for everyone. The way we solved the price issue was with something which, as scientists, was literally right in front of our eyes: to just use waste - because that way we’re solving environmental, sustainability and price issues, so it was a win-win."

The Villafañe sisters, at the head of Argencrops, talk to Luke Wilkinson about beans, brand new markets, and the trials and tribulations of working in Argentina’s remote production hub.

Eugenia Campanelli is the director of KC Agribusiness, formerly KC World Trade. In an interview with Ana Krepp, she shares her experiences with and perspective on agribusiness in Argentina.

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.

Kira Nash chatted with Giovanni De Angelis about ANICAV’s work and mission and got his overview of the canning market as it stands.

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.

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.

Mahmud Abdel Cader is founder and CEO of Pulses Splitting and Processing Industry in Sri Lanka. He has more than two decades’ experience in the pulses sector. Jesse Sam spoke to him in late November, to understand how that country’s ongoing currency crisis is affecting the pulses sector.

Daniel Plaza Bonilla is an Agricultural Engineer and the leader of LegSapiens, a project with pulses at its heart, aimed at increasing farm crop yield and profitability. He chatted with Luke Wilkinson about the benefits of mulch, and how rotating pulse crops with soy can increase your yield up to 15%.

This week, Madaline Dunn talked to Dr Maria Saarela, Research Director in Food Sciences at the South Australian Research and Development Institute (SARDI), to learn more about Adelaide's new plant-based food incubator laboratory, the exciting research ahead and the challenges of working with pulses.