By Dave Sims, Commodity News Service Canada
Winnipeg, November 2 – The push is on to drastically increase the size of Australia’s burgeoning pulse industry, according to a report by state broadcaster ABC.net. An official with the Australian Research Council says lentils, beans and pulse acreage need to double to improve the amount of nitrogen in the soil. The research council says that will reduce the amount of fertilizer farmers use each year and also making conditions better for grain crops as well.
Disease pressures continue to mount along Australia’s east coast. The Weekly Times says chickpea crops in southern Queensland and Northern New South Wales have been hit hard by ascochyta blight, with some farmers reportedly having to spray fungicide on the plants up to eight times.
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