Top US walnut producer eyeing India's booming market

[Vikrant]

This certainly will help U.S. agriculture based economy in a small way.

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HUGHSON: With India's market for walnut showing strong demand, a top American producer and processor is confident of doubling his exports to India this year of the 'king of nuts', considered a good source of healthy fats.

"We are excited about the possibilities in India regarding California walnuts," John Mundt, owner of Alpine Pacific Nut Co., Inc. said.

"We feel India has a lot of untapped potential with regards to the population size as well as the desire for people to star ..

Read more at:
Top US walnut producer eyeing India's booming market - The Economic Times

 

[Meathead]

Riveting stuff.

 

[Vikrant]

^ Don't shortchange yourself, cucumber sucker. The topic at hand does not even remotely have anything to do with bigotry

 

[Meathead]

^ Don't shortchange yourself, cucumber sucker. The topic at hand does not even remotely have anything to do with bigotry

Hari Krishna to you too Rajiv.

 

[Vikrant]

^ Don't shortchange yourself, cucumber sucker. The topic at hand does not even remotely have anything to do with bigotry

Hari Krishna to you too Rajiv.

You are shortchanging yourself again

 

[Meathead]

You know Rajiv, if eating walnuts somehow cuts down on rape, we should flood the Indian market as a humanitarian gesture for the sake of women and children. Otherwise, who cares?

 

[Vikrant]

You know Rajiv, if eating walnuts somehow cuts down on rape, we should flood the Indian market as a humanitarian gesture for the sake of women and children. Otherwise, who cares?

Dear Hitler's maid,

If posting on this thread detracts your evil deeds elsewhere then I would gladly keep you occupied here.

 

[Vikrant]

I did not want to start a separate thread for pulse crops and their economical impact on the farmers. So I am sticking it in here.

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As India’s demand for peas and lentils has grown, so have prices paid to Montana farmers, making pulse crops popular in the state when Montana wheat prices drop.

This week, Montana’s delegation wrote U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker asking for intervention in India’s pulse practices.

“This industry is a rapidly growing and integral aspect of our economy, as producers in the state planted over 680,000 acres worth of pulses worth over $100 million in 2014,” lawmakers wrote. “We request that USDA and Commerce engage with the Indian government to resolve this situation as quickly as possible and provide pulse producers in Montana and across the country the certainty they deserve.”

Tim McGreevy, U.S. Dry Pea and Lentil Council CEO, said Indian officials set storage limits out of concern that warehouses were hoarding crops in order to drive prices up.

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Pea, lentil farmers at odds with India import policy