India · Mung Beans (Green Gram)
East African Mung Beans for the Indian Market
Mung beans — green gram in East African trade usage, moong in India — move into India for both whole consumption and splitting into dal. The Indian market is large, domestically supplied in most years, and imports fill seasonal and quality gaps rather than a structural deficit, which makes timing more important here than for pigeon peas.
- Destination
- India
- Discharge ports
- Nhava Sheva (JNPT) · Mundra · Chennai · Tuticorin · Kolkata
- Commodity
- Mung Beans (Green Gram)
East African green gram competes on the strength of its harvest calendar and on size. Tanzanian and Kenyan crops arrive in windows that do not overlap exactly with Indian production, and buyers looking for a particular size band will source where that band is actually available in a given season.
Specification conversations with Indian buyers usually start with size and colour, then move to purity, moisture and defect tolerances. An offer that omits the size band is incomplete.
Buyers
Who buys, and on what basis
- Dal mills splitting green gram into moong dal.
- Importer-traders supplying wholesale markets and repackers.
- Packers producing retail whole green gram, where brightness and uniformity carry a premium.
Logistics
Routing and packing
- Tanzanian cargo loads at Dar es Salaam; Kenyan cargo at Mombasa.
- Nhava Sheva, Mundra and Chennai are the usual discharge ports.
- 25 kg and 50 kg PP bags are both used, depending on whether the receiver mills or repacks.
- Confirm current phytosanitary and treatment requirements before loading; they change and are not stated here.
Specification
What matters most for this market
- Size band
- Contracted as a screen size. Larger, well-filled beans command a premium and are what most Indian buyers ask for first.
- Colour and brightness
- Bright, even green is worth more than dull or weathered colour. It fades with age, which ties directly back to crop year.
- Purity and foreign matter
- Machine cleaned covers most milling requirements; colour sorted is normally specified where the product goes to retail packing.
- Moisture
- Typically 12% max. Green gram is sensitive to storage conditions and colour degrades faster at higher moisture.
- Insect damage
- Bruchids attack mung beans readily in storage. Treatment history and storage conditions at origin matter as much as the cleaning specification.
Mung Beans (Green Gram) — Machine Cleaned
Whole green mung beans, East African origin
- Product
- Whole mung beans (green gram), Vigna radiata
- Origin
- Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia
- Crop year
- Stated on contract
- Moisture
- 12% max
- Purity
- 98% min
- Foreign matter
- 1% max
- Admixture
- 1% max
- Damaged and discoloured
- 2% max
- Broken and split
- 1% max
- Insect damaged
- 1% max
- Immature and shrivelled
- 2% max
- Size
- 3.0 mm and above
- Colour
- Bright green, as per approved sample
- GMO status
- Not genetically modified
Notes on specific parameters
- Crop year — Contract on a specific crop year; it materially affects colour, cooking behaviour and insect load.
- Size — Also available 3.2 mm+ and 3.5 mm+ subject to crop and grading.
- GMO status — There are no commercially cultivated genetically modified varieties of this crop.
- Size bands are produced by screening and depend on the crop; confirm the band against a current sample.
- Sprouting-grade requirements are assessed separately — see the Sortex specification and the mung bean quality guide.
Specifications shown are indicative contract parameters used across the trade. They are not laboratory results and are not a guarantee attaching to any particular lot. The specification that governs a shipment is the one written into its contract, agreed against the buyer’s requirement and, where appearance matters, against an approved sample.
Regulatory position. Import policy for pulses into India is set by the importing authority and can change at short notice. Nothing here states the duty, restriction or phytosanitary condition in force. Confirm the current position with your customs broker and the competent authority before contracting, and agree in the contract which party carries the risk of a change between contract and arrival.
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