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UNB, Dhaka

A Canadian marketing mission, led by the Agriculture and Food companies of Saskatchewan Trade and Export Partnership (STEP) involved in Saskatchewan's pulse sector, will visit Dhaka and Chittagong on March 3-7.

The purpose of the trade mission is to provide the local buyers and importers to network with Canadian exporters of high quality agricultural commodities and also to provide an insight into Canada's advances in the research and development made in this sector. Saskatchewan leads the world in pulse production and pulse markets are growing as world population grows. Bangladesh has become Canada's one of the top export destination for peas and pulses. Export to Bangladesh in 2007 reached an all time high of Canadian dollar 80 million (249,589 metric tons), said a Canadian High Commission release.