Tanzania is Africa’s top pulses exporter

exercise by looking at Tanzania’s export performance for pulses as a whole. In 2024, Tanzania exported a total of 590,399 tonnes, up from 447,943 tonnes in 2023. With this quantity, Tanzania ranks first in Africa and eighth in the world, trailing only Canada, Australia, Russia, Myanmar, the United States, Turkey and India. The next highest African exporter was Egypt, which exported 411,365 tonnes, followed by Mozambique with 262,739 tonnes, Ethiopia with 183,569 tonnes and Sudan with 163,723 tonnes. Tanzania’s pulses exports were valued at 376.9 million US dollars, significantly lower than Egypt’s export value of 491.4 million US dollars. In other words, although Egypt exported less by volume, it earned over USD 100 million more than Africa’s top exporter by quantity, Tanzania. For years, Egypt has been Tanzania’s main competitor in the pulses export market, especially in the past two years—2023 and 2022—when Egypt’s export value surpassed Tanzania’s by just over 14 million US ...