The Company
Agrocorp Ltd
The company that could potentially export this product for human consumption to Nepal is Agrocorp International Pte Ltd.
ABOUT
This company is a potential exporter of Kidney beans to Nepal because they already export a variety of their pulse products, such as peas and lentils to nearby countries, such as India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan(Agrocorp International Pte Ltd 2014). Other companies such as Pulse Canada and the Canadian Special Crop Associations, CSCA, The Manitoba Pulse Growers Association Alberta Pulse Growers Commission, and the Ontario bean growers also cooperation with Agrocorp in their production and processing of kidney beans. Agrocorp is able to produce kidney beans at a value of $925 per metric ton, MT (Agrocorp International Pte Ltd 2014).
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TRANSPORTATION
Dark red kidney beans are produced near their main offices in Canada. In Alberta Canada, they are cultivated and stored at a maximum capacity of 6000MT (Agrocorp International Pte Ltd 2014). They are then sent to different offices, such as the Cut Knife Office in Saskatchewan, where they will be packaged and shipped via the pacific railway. They are then sent to the Vancouver office to be shipped by boat and plane to destinations such as India at a price of US $2000-$2500 per MT depending on how much is imported (Agrocorp International Pte Ltd 2014).
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BENEFITS TO CANADA
This potential export would be beneficial to Canada because it can generate industry for individuals working in pulse agriculture (Yang Dongfang 2007), such as those working with Agrocorp. The increase of demand for this product caused by increased exports to Nepal can also encourage more farmers to grow more legumes (Chapagain 2016). Since legumes are able to fix the nitrogen in the soil to provide an abundance of nitrogen fertilizer for the following crop they would be beneficial to Canadian farmers who rotate their crops(TiffL. van Huysen 2016). The reduction of applied nitrogen fertilizer can reduce strain on nitrogen pollution to the surrounding environment (TiffL. van Huysen 2016).
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ABOUTThis paper is part of
Agri1110, Introduction to AgriFood Systems at the Univeristy of Guelph, Canada". For further details contact Prof. Manish N. Raizada [email protected] |