Namibia banned imports in September 2023
19 August 2024
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Namibia has resumed imports of are living poultry and birds from South Africa, Reuters reported, mentioning a remark from the agriculture ministry.
Namibia banned imports of are living poultry, birds and poultry merchandise from neighbouring South Africa in September 2023, following an endemic of extremely pathogenic avian influenza within the nation.
Namibia consumes an estimated 2,500 metric lots of rooster each and every month, usually depending on imports principally from South Africa.
The ministry additionally mentioned it had suspended imports of are living birds and raw poultry merchandise from Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul state following an endemic of the avian Newcastle illness.
Consignments containing poultry merchandise from the state packed of their ultimate packaging on or after June 18, the date of suspension, will probably be despatched again or destroyed on the importer’s price, Namibia’s agriculture ministry mentioned.