Pigeon Peas (Toor / Arhar)

Whole toor & toor dal from Myanmar and Tanzania

Pigeon peas trade under three names that all mean the same seed — toor, arhar and red gram — and the first commercial fork is whole versus split. Whole toor is bought by dal mills that want to run their own dehulling and splitting and capture the milling margin; toor dal is the split, skinless yellow cotyledon that retail packers, ready-meal producers and food-service buyers take because the milling is already done. Within toor dal there is a second fork buyers must name: plain (unpolished) versus oil-treated, where a light coat of edible oil is applied to improve gloss and shelf appearance. Some destinations and food-safety programmes will not accept oil-treated material at all, so this is a specification to settle before quoting rather than after loading.

Origin genuinely concentrates here in a way it does not for chickpeas or lentils. Myanmar is the dominant exporter of whole toor, with Tanzania, Mozambique and Malawi supplying the African crop, and Indian demand sets the world price — Indian import policy on toor can reprice the whole lane inside a week, which is why forward cover matters more on this line than on most. Buyers choose pigeon peas over lentils precisely because toor dal holds a fuller body and a distinct nutty flavour and does not collapse the way red split lentils do. Lots ship against SGS or Intertek certification of purity, moisture, foreign matter, broken and damaged seed, weevil and insect damage, oil-treatment status and crop year, with phytosanitary and fumigation documentation. CBIL arranges 25kg and 50kg PP bags and 1 MT jumbo bags, container-load, on FOB, CFR and CIF terms.