Martin Chidwick Bissma Pacific

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United States Dry Bean Convention 2009

• Martin Chidwick Bissma Pacific

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101 YEARS OF AGE
WE STILL SALUTE YOU
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FLOW OF THE ECONOMY???
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Putting the Romance
Back in Beans!!
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WHAT IS SLOW FOOD?

• The Slow food movement that is taking hold in the
  US/CANADA draws us back to the mentality of food
  that is not so fast, but rather takes time to
  make, and time to enjoy.
• The movement urges the consumer to revalue once
  considered peasant homely fare that takes time to
  cook.

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Anasazi Bean. Aka New Mexico Cave Beans or
Aztec Beans or Jacobs Cattle
Adobe Milling, Colorado. Unusually tasty
baking bean, very scrumptious This sweeter
and mealier bean will allow many culinary
delights. Attractive, purple, red and white
bean.
Originating with cave dwellers around the Mesa
Verde, Arizona. Story goes that about 40/50
years ago archeologists discovered a clay pot
sealed with pine tar containing a mottled purple
and white bean carbon dated to 500BC. Strangely,
some of the beans sprouted.
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FRANCE

• A Brotherhood of the Tarbais was formed to
  protect the haricot Tarbais, so perfect for
  cassoulet.
• In the Valley de Lys near Calais comes the
  Lingot du Nord, advertised with the Label Rouge
  , a designation of quality control and legal
  status for the name. It is said that the skins
  are so thin that there is no need for soaking!

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PERU

• The Pallares, Lima or Butter bean. Popular in
  the dish, Ensalda de Pallares.
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• A bean that dates back 8,500 years, native to the
  Andes and loved by the Inca peoples.

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CHAD
The staple diet was pearl millet and black eyed
beans/peas. This bean was brought to America by
the slave trade. In the book Beans a History it
is described as a proud and hardworking bean,
resolute through affliction and desperation, a
true survivor. A true soul food.
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INDIA

• Comes the true valorization of beans, and a
  remarkable rejection of the scandalous view
  that beans are associated with poverty!!
• Any Indian grocery store will display dozens of
  bean types and many of them are small, such as
  urid, mung , moth and rice beans.
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• But back to the Indian appreciation of beans. The
  value of a bean is supported by medical opinion.
  India has an indigenous dietary system known as
  Ayurveda, which means the science or knowledge of
  longevity.
• It goes like this. A system of life is based on a
  series of doshas which basic forces govern our
  physiology.a kind of energy (hold that thought)
  principle. The foods we eat reinforce a
  particular dosha and in this system beans are
  classified as a vata food. As a vata food, beans
  aid physical movement in the limbs as well as
  breathing, circulation, nerve impulses and even
  the free movement of ideas! Too much vata
  explains an instable or hyperactive person. Too
  little , those needing energy, should use beans
  as a pick me up!!

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ITALY

• Tuscans refer to themselves as mangiafagioli-
  bean-eaters.
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• From a small village near Belluno in the
  Dolomites comes a large mottled red bean known as
  lamon. They are beans of the Borlotto type.
  This bean is treated reverentially especially in
  the dish pasta e fagioli.
• In 1993 the Syndicate for the Protection of the
  Lamon Bean exists, and a festival is held every
  September in Belluno.
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• (Maybe we should form the Royal Society of
  Protection for Bean Dealers and Traders, seeing
  as the average age must be over 60 years old by
  now!!).
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• The European Union even conferred IGT status
  (Indicazione Geografica Tipica) on the lamon
  bean, legally protecting its name in marketing.
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• Other beans Sorana (a white pearly gem) from
  Tuscany and the magical Zolfino bean with a
  sulfurous yellow color ( from the Pratomagno
  region near Florence) are added to the list of
  Italian beans protected by Slow Foods Ark of
  Taste.
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• Italians can exude rapturously over beans!! They
  are actively enticing tourists to partake of
  indigenous and authentic nostalgic, countryside
  cuisine. Are you a connoisseur? Do you taste the
  romance!!??

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Belluno
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Talking of romance ,I had a moving moment of my
own recently, after many years of courting!
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She is 101 Years old
And she just learned what Safeway is now
carrying!!!!
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Headlines from the FAO (in Rome)
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World population densityFeeding the planet?
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OECD-FAO Agriculture Outlook 2008-2017 predicts
volatile prices and an increase in biofuels
production
Higher food prices are blamed on the
three-pronged forces of adverse weather in key
grain producing regions, increased consumption of
livestock in countries like China, and the growth
in biofuels production. While prices will
probably recover from the disruptions due to
weather, prices are likely to stay high as the
other two factors continue to drive demand.
Global trade patterns are shifting, notes the
report, with developing countries accounting for
a growing share of the production and consumption
of all agricultural products apart from wheat.
Developing countries are also accounting for an
increasing share of imports and exports in the
agricultural sector. The report predicts that
prices will remain volatile over the next decade,
as stocks may not be replenished, demand becomes
less sensitive to prices, and climate change
causes havoc on weather conditions.
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Agriculture more resilient to global crisis than
other sectors
OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2009-2018 published
17 June 2009, Paris/Rome - Because food is a
basic necessity, the agriculture sector is
showing more resilience to the global economic
crisis than other industries. Falls in
agricultural prices and in the production and
consumption of farm goods are likely to be
moderate as long as the economic recovery begins
within two to three years, says the OECD-FAO
Agricultural Outlook 2009-2018. Food prices have
come down from the record peaks of early 2008 but
they remain high in many poor countries. Over the
coming decade prices for all farm commodities
except beef and pigmeat - even when adjusted for
inflation - are unlikely to fall back to their
average levels before the 2007-08 peaks.Average
crop prices are projected to be 10-20 percent
higher in real terms (adjusted for inflation) for
the next 10 years compared with the average for
the period 1997-2006. Prices for vegetable oils
are expected to be more than 30 percent
higher.An expected economic recovery, renewed
food demand growth from developing countries and
the emerging biofuel markets are the key drivers
underpinning agricultural commodity prices and
markets over the medium term.
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Food supply and market access difficulties
persist in several countries
Despite an overall satisfactory food supply
situation in the subregion, vulnerable
populations in a number of Asian countries are
still affected by serious food supply
difficulties. More than two million people in
Nepal face a precautious food situation as a
result of crop failure due to the 2008/09 winter
drought. Crop yields in some districts in Mid-
and Far-Western Nepal - which received less than
50 percent of average rainfall during the period
from November 2008 to February 2009 - have
dropped by more than half based on the recent
MOAC, WFP and FAO joint crop assessment report.
Cyclone Aila struck the southwestern coast of
Bangladesh on 25 May, causing widespread
devastation. Over 240 000 homes have been
completely destroyed and 370 000 homes partly
destroyed, causing food insecurity for over 4
million people. Some 3 million people in
Pakistan's northwest region have been reportedly
displaced and faced food shortages due to the
recent civil conflict.In Sri Lanka, following the
cessation of the conflict between the Liberation
Tamil Tigers of Eelam (LTTE) and the Government
in May 2009, over 300 000 people were displaced
and have since been housed in government-run
camps. In Myanmar, agricultural and food
assistance continues to be needed for the summer
season and the current monsoon season to help
small farmers recover their production and
livelihoods in the areas affected by cyclone
Nargis last year. The food situation of more than
6 million vulnerable people in the Democratic
People's Republic of Korea is expected to worsen
during the lean growing season before the
November harvest because of reductions in aid.
The World Food Programme has received only 15
percent of the USD 504 million it needs to fulfil
its planned emergency assistance needs.
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Prices remain higher than last year's level in
spite of favorable production outlook
In Mexico wholesale prices of beans have
continued to skyrocket from January 2008 to June
2009, they passed from 7 700 to more than 17 000
pesos per tonne, severely affecting the access of
local consumers to this important source of
proteins. In all other Central American
countries, except Nicaragua, prices of cereals
are either stable or declining from the peaks
achieved in mid-2008.
Crop Prospects and Food Situation
- Domestic food prices in developing countries
remain very high
-Current food prices remain well above the
pre-crisis level despite decline in international
prices
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Low-Income Food-Deficit Countries food situation
overview

• In Eastern Africa, in Sudan, prices of sorghum in
  the main growing area of El Gedarif in June 2009
  were three times higher than two years ago. In
  Somalia, Mogadishu, prices of staple sorghum in
  the same month were three times higher than in
  June 2007, while in Uganda, Kenya and Ethiopia
  prices of maize have doubled their levels of 24
  months earlier.
• In countries of Southern Africa, prices of staple
  maize have declined in the recent months with the
  2009 bumper cereal harvests but remain above the
  pre-crisis levels. In Malawi, maize quotations in
  Lilongwe in June this year were more than twice
  those of June 2007.
• In Western Africa, prices temporarily decreased
  in late 2008 following good cereal harvests, but
  resume increasing in 2009. In Senegal prices of
  imported rice in Dakar in June were 60 higher
  than two years ago. In Ghana, prices of maize in
  Accra have more than doubled their levels of June
  2007.

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Low-Income Food-Deficit Countries food situation
overviewContd

• In Asia, in Pakistan, prices of wheat in Karachi
  in May 2009 have doubled their levels of two
  years earlier.
• Similarly, in Latin America and the Caribbean, in
  Haiti, prices of local rice in Les Cayes in June
  this year were almost three times higher than in
  June 2007. In the same period, in Nicaragua,
  average price for rice and maize were 61 percent
  and 58 percent higher respectively.
• Reasons for the continuous high level of food
  prices vary according to regions and from country
  to country. They include, among others, reduced
  harvests, higher and/or delayed imports, civil
  conflict, demand in neighbouring countries and
  regional trade flows, devaluation of national
  currencies, changes in food and trade policies,
  increased incomes and demand, and transport
  constraints and higher transport costs.

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Listen in to some self styled English Economic
Analysts
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ARGENTINA
We are indebted to Marcelo Soto Acebal for the
use of his graphs, and charts.
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Argentina

• Alubias
• Blacks
• Light Red Kidney
• Cranberry Beans
• Dark Red Kidney
• Balance other whites,
• brown, adzuki

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Brazil
I am indebted to Hugo Raggi for the use of his
charts and graphs
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Brasil

• Dry Bean consumption _at_
• 3 million MT annually
• -consumption is trending lower

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• FIRST CROP
• (December to March)

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• SECOND CROP
• (April to July)

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THIRD CROP (August to November)
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Beans Production (last 5 years in Metric Tons)
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CROP FORECAST
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Main beans varieties
Others combined 250.000 MT / year
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Carioca Beans Prices CFR São Paulo(Wholesaler
price - US per MT)
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Black Beans Prices CFR São Paulo(Wholesalers
prices - US per MT)
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Beans Importation x Exportation (last 5 years -
in Metric Tons)
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CHINA
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Chinese Statistics

• As we were informed in Turkey this year the total
  acreage of kidney beans planted has dropped in
  favor of soya production (as in 2008).
• There is difficulty in finding a concrete
  number/percentage of this decrease but claims
  have been made that the drop within China could
  be as much as 20.
• Despite all this, China claims to have exported
  1.03 million mT of pulses in 2008, with
  significant increases in volumes of kidney beans,
  broad beans, and haricot beans (ironically acres
  of haricot type are well down this 2009 season.

I am indebted to Sean Mackenzie and the Pulse
Sub-Chamber of CFNA for the use of the next few
slides.
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Chinas Pulses Production in 2008 Season
Chinese Pulses Export(JanuaryDecember, 2008)
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Forecast and Prospects

• As pulses including kidney bean growing can
  not enjoy subsidy and farmers confidence in
  external market environment is weakened,it is
  expected that sown area of pulses in 2009 would
  be reduced from last year.

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EGYPT
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Egypt Generally Imports
Egypt Generally Exports
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Ethiopia

• Production
• 40,000 MT 50,000 MT annually
• Peabean production began as
• a food aid project to help build
• infrastructure and feed the
• people.

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Turkey
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Turkey

• Turkey is now a gateway to the near by markets
  such as Iran and Iraq
• At CICILS this year we heard from Arbel that
  drop in dry beans seeded acres is accelerating
  to alarming levels. In 2002 acres seeded to dry
  beans were appx. 250000, and 2008-2009 the levels
  could reach as low as 150000 (60 of 2002
  levels).
• The same can be said for the lentils and chick
  peas although chick pea acres remain just over
  500000.
• These conditions have led Turkey to be an
  importer of over 30000 Tonnes of dry beans and
  close to 200000 Tonnes of all color lentils in
  the last few years.

I am indebted to Mr. Huseyin Arslan of Arbel for
the following two slides
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Decrease in Exports
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Fall in Pulse Production
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Myanmar

• LOCATION
• SOUTHEASTERN ASIA
• BORDERING ANDAMAN SEA, BAY OF BENGAL, BANGLADESH,
  CHINA, INDIA, LAOS AND THAILAND
• CAPITAL RANGOON (YANGON)
• NOTE NAY PYI DAW IS ADMINISTRATIVE CAPITAL
• ADMINISTRATIVE DIVISIONS 7 DIVISIONS 7 STATES
• MONETORY UNIT KYAT
• LITERACY 83
• ETHINIC GROUP 135
• AREA LAND 657,740 SQ. KM
• WATER 20,760 SQ. KM
• POPULATION 47 MIL
• COASTLINE 1,930 KM
• LAND USE AREABLE LAND 14.92
• PERMANENT CROPS 1.31
• OTHER 83.77
• GDP 83.84 BILLION (2006 EST.)

Thank you to L.K. Bangar and Swiss Singapore
Overseas Enterprises for the use of their slides.
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Export of Pulses from Myanmar
PRODUCTWISE EXPORTS
(Quantity in MT)
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Export of Pulses from Myanmar
(Quantity in MT)
COUNTRYWISE EXPORTS
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Pattern of Export of Pulses by Country
2002-03 to 2008-09 (Average)
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INDIA
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Taj Lake Palace/ Floating Palace
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Monsoon Issues in India 2009

• India needs water for spring and winter crops.
  India relies heavily on monsoon season for this
  water.
• May 25 Monsoon arrived early Not a good sign
• By June it had disappeared!!
• July the Monsoon has reappeared, but net result
  is short water!
• Indian Government reacts. SCARY STUFF?

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Indian Bean Consumption
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Past, Present, and Future?
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Europe/European Union

• Europe usually imports about 600000 mT of beans,
  lentils, and chickpeas per year.
• The biggest per capita consumption area is in
  Southern Europe, and areas bordering the
  Mediterranean Sea.
• However, one must not forget the 100000 plus
  tonnes consumed per year by the English
• Point of interest - only 1 of total crop
  production in Europe is given over to pulses.

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Southern Africa
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South Africa

• South Africa currently produce less beans than
  they Import
• Produce apx. 50,000mT
• Import apx. 70,000mT
• Main types of consumption Speckled Sugar beans
  and Navies

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Zimbabwae

• President Mugabe advises President Obama with the
  Kajillian bank note 1,000,000,000,000,000,000
  expiring in 40 seconds, before devalued and a
  higher denomination is needed! Inflation rate
  11.25 million
• Harare Economy the hour economy. A once rich
  and proud nation with a thriving agricultural base

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Mozambique

• Rumor is that there are some 40,000-50,000 tonnes
  of sugar beans cranberry types being produced.
• Certainly, this former Portuguese colony, is
  benefiting from a joint Austrian Mozambique
  funded project.
• I will now highlight some key word smithing on
  the part of the CIAT

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Understanding the Value of Beans

• Getting back to the basics Creating Impact
  Oriented Bean Seed Delivery System for the Poor
• In this project the CIAT led Southern Africa
  Bean Research Network(SABRN) and NARS bean
  research programme in Mozambique hope to capture
  and combine both, the bean seed acquisition
  systems which are routinely used by farmers, ad
  well as those seed delivery channels designed for
  improved germplasm innovations.
• Improving food security and nutrition through
  edible legume research in Malawi and Mozambique .
• This project aims to improve bean productivity.
  Increased bean production is expected to lead
  to increases bean consumption and sale
  improving food and nutrition security as well as
  household incomes at grass-root level.
• Funding is in the Pipeline
• The programme covers 22 countries grouped in 3
  sub-regional networks.
• 1)Identify and develop opportunities, strategies
  and technologies to improve bean productivity and
  product quality in ways that contribute to more
  resilient and sustainable land use by resource
  poor farmers.
• 2)Improve food, nutrition security and health of
  venerable communities.
• 3)Link farmers to equitable and sustainable bean
  markets.
• 4)Reach a diverse clientele of end users with
  adapted and preferred bean varieties, environment
  stress management options, and micronutrients
  bean based products.
• 5)Strengthen Capacity building and knowledge
  management for policy and advocacy.

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Kenya Tanzania

• I will leave you to research these two, but
  suffice to say, both countries have significant
  potential to raise their profile in pulses
  supply, and to this end several Asian companies
  are opening offices in these countries.

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Mr. Bean Trader?
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