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Poultry Agri-Biz & Commodities - Poultry Industry & Economy - Exports & Imports Egg prices gain as UAE lifts ban on Indian poultry imports Our Bureaus
Breaking grounds UAE imports alone account for a daily shipment of about 10 lakh eggs, 35 per cent of them from Namakkal. Egg prices up at Rs 1.65 a piece.
The denial of entry into the Dubai market had been denting shell egg shipment to West Asia, a key market for poultry products. The UAE imports alone accounted for a daily shipment of about 10 lakh eggs, out of an estimated 3.5 million eggs shipped out from Namakkal region daily prior to the ban last year. The much anticipated communication announcing the lifting of the ban was handed over on Friday to the Indian poultry functionaries, enabling the resumption of the table egg shipments since Friday, according sources in the National Egg Coordination Committee (NECC) at Namakkal. Namakkal region despatched at least two container loads of eggs to Dubai on Friday.
Disease free
The UAE hadimposed the ban in February 2006, in the wake of avian flu outbreak, which was reported in some States. Some of the other Gulf countries, including Muscat and Doha, which had also banned Indian poultry, rescinded the curb four months ago following an official declaration from OIE (Organisation of Internationale Epidemia or the World Organisation of Animal Health) on India's poultry disease free-status. The UAE continued the ban till January 18. OIE had notified India's avian flu free status last August. The UAE consumers, on the other hand, had to import eggs from Europe due to the ban and were paying Rs 6-7 per egg.
Positive reaction
Expressing happiness over the move, the NECC's Namakkal zonal Chairman, Dr P. Selvaraj, told Business Line that the latest development would buoy egg market sentiment across India, including the Namakkal market, which has of late emerged as the nerve-centre for table egg exports. Dr Selvaraj also anticipated that the farm-gate price for eggs is expected to go up by another ten paise within the next one week or so. The NECC functionaries thanked the efforts taken by the trade delegation, which was specially formed by it under the leadership of Ms Rani, a Member of Parliament from Tamil Nadu, which visited Dubai last month. The delegation met key UAE officials, including the head of the General Secretariat of Municipalities, UAE, Mr Jassim M. Bin Darwesh, which finally led to the revocation of the ban, Dr Selvaraj added.
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