Lucrative Indian chickpea market reopens for Australian farmers with 10 per cent tariff

Mervyn Bourne has been a farmer for 35 years, but this is the first time he has gone all in on chickpeas.

Encouraged by a stabilised trade relationship with India, the central Queensland grower is planting all 1,300 hectares of his farm to the pulse crop, for one good reason.

“The money,” Mr…