Court limits export of pigeon peas from Mozambique to India to 200 thousand tons

The Mozambican Government clarified this Wednesday, November 29, that a court banned the country from exporting more pigeon peas to India, maintaining a quota of just 200,000 tonnes for this product to be sold to the Asian country. Quoted by the Lusa agency, the Minister of Industry and Commerce of Mozambique, Silvino Moreno, stated in the Assembly of the Republic, in Maputo, questioned by deputies, that the decision of the aforementioned court resulted from the request of an exporter of pigeon peas, who contests the sale to India in quantities exceeding the quota of 200 thousand tons of the product, alleging the risk of losses to the business. The complainant submitted the case to the Court, after the Mozambican authorities announced that the limit of 200,000 tons of annual exports of pigeon peas to India, until March 2024, would no longer apply, said the Minister of Industry and Commerce. “To our surprise, one of the operators of the tender launched in February (for the export ...