LAHORE: Pakistan now can export poultry products without any hurdle as OIE – world Organisation for Animal Health – is set to declare it free of bird flu.
Federal Minister for Food Security and Research Sikandar Hayyat Bosan said this while inaugurating the International Poultry Expo 2014 on the topic of ‘Avian health, management and marketing solutions’ at the Lahore Expo Centre.
He said that Pakistan was the 11th largest producer of broiler chickens in the world as its poultry sector was growing at a pace of 10 per cent annually, adding that this sector had 6.1 per cent share in agricultural and 10.8 per cent in livestock sector.
“Brazil is the largest exporter of halal chicken to Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan has all the potential to make inroads to this market,“ he said, adding that the country’s poultry industry could also exploit the need of Gulf countries for halal chicken meat.
