Certainly I think of the crops we export to these countries, a good portion would be not shipped farmer dressed, meaning not shipped bulk. They would have been processed in Canada, somewhere likely near where they were produced, on the Prairies. Certainly there'd be cleaning and in some cases splitting of the crops. Certainly as an industry, we'd love at some point to expand the consumption of these pulse crops beyond whole pulses to include fractions of pulses in, say, cereal-pulse flours, which could add extra nutritional value.
There's huge opportunity globally for our pulse industry to satisfy a lot of the food security issues that are now creeping into the public's mind. Right now, pulse protein is only 5% of the global protein intake. We have an objective in the not-too-distant future to double that as a food security strategy. In this part of the world where the population is growing, where there are going to be food security issues, expanding trade of whole foods or fractions of these whole crops we grow is a tremendous opportunity. We are not the world's largest producer of pulse crops or the world's largest exporter, but there's tremendous opportunity.
I just returned from the World Pulses Convention. There is a lot of interest in pulses as a food security solution everywhere, including all these countries that had delegates at that convention.