Vietnam shrimp exports to EU has reached US$112mn in Q1 2014, a marked 97.9 per cent increase since the same period last year
Livestock
Indonesia to encourage local beef production
Indonesia’s Jakarta and the East Nusa Tenggara Timor (NTT) region have signed a deal for more supply of beef to the capital in order to meet the rising demand
Thailand plans to launch its own chicken brand
Thailand’s Commerce Ministry has called on the private sector in the country to establish a brand for chicken exports
Japan to reduce tariff on Australian chicken and pork imports
Japan will apply a tariff-quota system on products such as chicken and pork from Australia to allow set quantities of imports with low duty rates under a bilateral free trade agreement (FTA)
Danish company to open fishmeal plant in China
Danish livestock meal and oil producer Triplenine will build a new fishmeal plant in China