Indias meat exports down with viral infections
The Dollar Business Bureau All is not well with India’s exports of animal products. The industry has been facing huge challenge from infections like bird flu and foot-and-mouth diseases in the past three years. According to a government data, the total export volume of various animal products was US$ 4.54 billion from April 2014 to Feb 2015. Though the volume of trade increased marginally from US$ 4.47 billion registered during previous year, the quantity of exported products decreased from 17.41 lakh tonnes to 16.23 lakh tonnes in the past two years. Of the total volume, buffalo meat exports contributed a major share of 4.4 billion with the supply of 13.56 lakh tonnes in the international market, the government data ...
