Indian meat exports to get a boost as Cambodia decides to lift temporary ban

In a constructive development for Indian meat exporters, the Cambodian government has determined to raise the temporary ban on meat supplies from India put in location final month thanks to panic of Covid-19 virus contamination after the Indian Embassy in Phnom Penh argued that there was no scientific evidence powering the restriction, according to a resource tracking the matter.

Exporters say that the development reinforces the reality the Indian meat industry is providing a globe class product or service and a person may perhaps assume shipments to mature this 12 months irrespective of the lingering effect of the pandemic.

“We are grateful to our Indian Embassy in Cambodia for getting up the problem and outlining issues logically to the Cambodian government to set up that Indian supplies are completely secure. We are hopeful that our exports to the Cambodian market will contact $a hundred million this 12 months,” explained Fauzan Alavi, a massive-scale exporter of meat from India and spokesperson for the All-India Meat & Livestock Exporters Association.

Momentary ban

Cambodia put a temporary ban on imported buffalo and other meat solutions originating from India on May perhaps one stating that it was in accordance with multilateral trade policies that allowed restrictions to be put on imports on the foundation of ‘urgent community health protection’.

The place also determined to perform screening and analysis for other pathogens, primarily variants of the coronavirus, on the consignments. It prepared to seek cooperation of the Indian government to discover and identify sources of an infection in the generation, freezing, packaging and transportation of these items, according to media reports.

The Indian Embassy, however, pointed out to the Cambodian government that the absence of scientific evidence on the Covid-19 spreading by way of meals and packaging material, manufactured the ban a non-tariff barrier, the resource explained. In a quantity of meetings with Cambodia’s Minister of Economy and Finance Aun Pornmoniroth, Indian Ambassador to Cambodia Devyani Khobragade insisted that the ban ought to be withdrawn as the Pasteur Institute of Cambodia experienced certified that all the samples were being Covid-19 damaging and fit for human consumption.

Big scope

The Embassy also pointed out that there was a substantial scope for Indian meat solutions in Cambodia as exports were being at $9.32 million in just the 1st two months of 2021 which was about 50 % of exports of meat really worth $seventeen.seven million in 2021. In 2019, meat exports to Cambodia were being at $6.4 million.

Alavi explained that no virus has ever been detected in supplies from India and hence desire was on a rise. “Indonesia has put an get for fifty three,000 tonnes really worth $ a hundred seventy five million. Egypt, much too, has surpassed all historic records in purchasing Indian buffalo meat so considerably,” he explained.

India exported buffalo meat really worth $3.4 billion in 2020-21.