Foreign Agricultural Department of the United States Department of Agriculture has estimated pulses output in Myanmar during 2017 at 5.16 mln tn, up 2.4% on year. Output in the current year is expected to rise after production fell in the previous year as farmers had shifted to sugarcane and cotton for better returns. returns. The agency has pegged exports of pulses from Myanmar in 2017 at 1.45 million tonne, unchanged from 2016. It expects demand from India to remain firm. India is the largest importer of pulses from Myanmar, accounting for 80% of the total exports.