Import of dried shelled kidney beans and white pea beans to Botswana falls in 2016

In comparison with the prior year dried beans import sharply fell by 71.2 percent, revised numbers from United Nations Statistical Office reveal. It highlights the all-time low since 2000 as the indicator strongly diminished from 240 002 kilogram to 69 131 kilogram, compared with the previous year when it increased by 80.41%. Botswana saw a diminution of 95.03% in dried beans import during the last 17 years. Likewise, it has attained a negative average annual growth rate of 0.17% during the last five years with a marginal overall fall since the start of time series. It averaged 1 397 467.24 kilogram from 2000 to 2016 and it hit its maximum of 4 215 772 kilogram in 2001.