YANGON, July 15 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar exported 424,187 tons of beans and pulses worth 333 million U.S. dollars in the first quarter of the current 2023-2024 fiscal year, according to the figures released by the Ministry of Commerce on Saturday.
From April 1 to June 30 this year, Myanmar traded 369,237 tons of beans and pulses through sea routes and shipped 54,950 tons of beans and pulses through land borders, the ministry said.
Myanmar's exports of beans and pulses dwindled in the first quarter of 2023-24 fiscal year compared with the corresponding period of the previous year. Myanmar shipped 489,985 tons of beans and pulses in the first quarter of 2022-2023 fiscal year, according to the ministry statistics.
Beans and pulses are Myanmar's second-most cultivated crops after rice and account for 33 percent of the Southeast Asian country's total agricultural production.
Myanmar exports beans and pulses to China, India and the European countries. ■