Miller Magazine Issue: 130 October 2020

85 MARKET ANALYSIS MILLER / OCtOber 2020 Black Sea Pulses “Despite thedecline inpulseproductionafter 2017, Russia, Ukraine and other countries in the region are trying to maintain export volumes. For Ukrainian legumes, the main markets remain the EU, India and Turkey, where both peas and other crops are actively sold. Russia, besides these countries, is also active in the Pakistani market. For the last two seasons, Ukraine has occupied 4% of the pea production market, while Russia produces 17-18% of all world peas.” Elena Faige Neroba Business Development Manager Maxigrain Last week, Ukraine hosted the 5th International Conference “Era after COVID-19, which highlighted not only the problems and challenges facing the pulse industry, but also the prospects for its development. It is noteworthy that in spite of all the difficulties, the Ukrainian Association of Legumes was able to organize the usual "live" communication for us at least for the delegates from Ukraine. Over the five years of the Ukrainian association's existence, a huge work has been done to develop the industry, and Ukraine began to be marked on the map of world trade not only in grain and oil. Vegetable protein is im- portant in replacing meat for those countries where the culture of its consumption is not developed due to economic, climatic or religious characteristics. Unfortunately, many attendees were unable to attend the event in person, but they were online. Hussein Arslan assu-