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Global lentil exports in 2020 jumped from $1 billion to $2.6 billion compared to the year before. Canada and Australia led the surge, accounting for more than three-fourths of the exports. Lentil exports peaked at $2.7 billion in 2015 but drifted lower through 2019, primarily due to reduced shipments from Canada to India and Turkey and from the United States to Canada and India.

Paraguay beef exports for 2018 are forecast at 380,000 tons carcass weight equivalent, unchanged from 2017.

Paraguayan beef exports for 2017 are forecast to increase marginally at 395,000 tons carcass weight equivalent.

Sub-Saharan Africa’s voracious appetite for imported agricultural goods is a direct result of the region’s robust growth in gross domestic product (GDP) and population.

Paraguayan beef exports in 2015 are projected to be a record at 360,000 tons (carcass weight equivalent). This is the result of increased beef output and continued strong foreign demand.