Saudi Arabia bans Indian poultry products
Sneha Gilada The Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) has informed the Indian poultry exporters that Saudi Arabia has imposed a temporary ban on the imports of Indian poultry products. The online note says, “the Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia vide its Note Verbale no. 209/404 dated 25.11.2016 has informed that the Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture of Saudi Arabia have decided to impose a temporary ban on the import of live birds, hatching eggs and chicks from India due to the outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza (reference : online bulletins of World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) 9 – 10 November 2016).” The ban comes 4 weeks after the WHO reported an outbreak of avian influenza or bird flu ...
Kuwait bans Indian poultry products
The Dollar Business Bureau Following the outbreak of bird flu in Tripura on the 4th of January, Kuwait had imposed a ban on poultry product imports from India. In Oct the Gulf nations’ PAAFR department (Public Authority of Agriculture Affairs and Fish Resources) had agreed to lift the ban on importing of live poultry, one-year old chicks of the egg laying hens and flesh hens from India. This decision by the Middle East could have a serious impact on India’s poultry exports as India mainly exports poultry to Middle East countries. Commerce and Industry Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in a written reply said that it is important to share this information so that the same can be conveyed to the importing countries to ...
