India represents a significant market for Canadian agricultural exports. About half of the country’s lentil imports come from Saskatchewan. Total value of Saskatchewan exports to India last year was $1.4 billion. But India has also at times implemented trade barriers that block those lentils. | File photo

Agriculture waits to see if political spat with India affects it

Half of India’s lentil imports come from Sask., and the province’s exports to the country were worth $1.4 billion last year

The agriculture sector should be on alert as relations between Canada and India deteriorate, a report warned last week. StrategyCorp, a management consulting and government relations firm, issued a geopolitical advisory Sept. 22 after prime minister Justin Trudeau said Sept. 18 he had credible information that the Indian government was potentially involved in killing a […] Read more