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Jerry Guirguis interviews Nick Goddard, Chief Executive Officer, Pulse Australia Limited, will be speaking to us Live-to-air via phone hook-up,
here on 96.5FM – Egyptian radio show [ Monday 26th September 2016, Melbourne Australia, English Edition, 8:30pm ].
No Egyptian Fuul without Australia planting it !!!
Australia’s home grown Faba beans [ Fuul ], Chickpeas & Lentils, Lupins are shipped to Egypt in very large quantities
United Nations, declared this year 2016, the international year of pulses
Tonight we’re celebrating this great & growing trade between Australia & Egypt
ABC Landline – Bean Boom, Reporter – Prue Adams, broadcast 11/Mar/2016
[ http://www.abc.net.au/landline/content/2015/s4397359.htm
Nick Goddard
CEO
Pulse Australia Limited
02 8007 7553
You can listen to this interview by going to [ http://sites.google.com/site/jerryguirguis/home ]
or
CD copy of this interview can be requested by email to: [ Jerry.Guirguis@gmail.com ]
Hi & Thank you for being on our 96.5FM – Egyptian radio show tonight, can we start with ......................
Q1] Tell us about Pulse Australia
Faba Beans [ Fuul ], a relative of broad beans, is now growing in all Australian states, very successfully,
even beating France & UK in exporting them to Egypt
Q2] How did we, in Australia become the experts on Faba beans ?
Faba beans planting area has doubled in five years, 2015 – 2016 faba beans = 330,000 tonnes
UN food and Agriculture Organization demand 500,000 tonnes for Faba Beans, Australia is providing ~ 70% world’s requirements
Q3] Have you a had the traditional Egyptian Faba ~ Fuul Medames for breakfast yet ?
Egypt is the world’s largest importer of Faba Beans [ Fuul ],
Annual requirement of 480,000 ~ 520,000 tonnes 31/Jul 2014
Australia exports 70% of it’s total Faba Beans market to Egypt
No Egyptian Fuul without Australia planting it !!!
Australia’s home grown Faba beans [ Fuul ], Chickpeas & Lentils, Lupins are shipped to Egypt in very large quantities
United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, declared this year 2016, the international year of pulses
Tonight we’re celebrating this great & growing trade between Australia & Egypt with Mr Nick Goddard from Pulse Australia.
DFAT Fact Sheet;
2011 Export to Egypt [ $115 million of Vegetables, Fuul Beans = Fava beans, Wheat, Lentils, Canola, Chickpeas, Carrots
2012 Export to Egypt [ $103 million of Vegetables
2013 Export to Egypt [ $111 million of Vegetables
2014 Export to Egypt [ $136 million of Vegetables
The long term average $value for Faba beans ~ $300/tonne [ 2014 ]
~ $400/tonne
~ $600/tonne [2016 ] 300,000 tonne x $600/tonne ~ =$180 million of just Fuul beans
Jerry Guirguis
Presenter
96.5FM - Egyptian radio show
0400 718 817
https://sites.google.com/site/jerryguirguis
studio : 03 9457 1718
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