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Data from the US Meat Export Federation showed US beef accounts for more than 50% of South Koreas total beef imports last year, taking the number one spot for six years, Yonhap News Agency reported.

Victor Oppong Adjei, president of the Ghana National Association of Poultry Farmers, said prices of poultry feed in the country have increased by 300% over the past two years, GhanaWeb reported.

A leading Gambian veterinarian and specialist in poultry diseases has disclosed that basic infrastructure and feeding remain the biggest challenges to poultry farming in the Gambia.

US ranchers were told by Don Close, American Ag Credit Chief Research and Analytics Officer, that beef prices in the country may increase in 2023 due to tighter beef supplies, The Record-Courier reported.

Traders said TMO, Turkeys state grain board, has begun to make provisional purchases of wheat in an international import tender, with about 320,000 tonnes initially bought, Nasdaq reported.

A cash injection of Ksh81.9 million (US$660,523) by the Kenyan government through the National Agricultural and Rural Inclusive Growth Project (NARIGP) to boost poultry farming in Bungoma County has seen farmers earnings leap from KSH33 million in 2018 to KSH300 million (US$2.4 million) currently.

Live broiler chicken prices in Pakistan dropped by about PKR 100 (~US$0.44; PKR 10 = US$0.044) to PKR 350 (~US$1.54) per kg, and this downtrend is set to continue as the government releases more consignments of feed ingredients struck at Karachi port, Dawn reported.

Papua New Guineas National Agriculture Quarantine Inspection Authority (NAQIA) has announced a directive to ban imports of fresh, frozen and chilled chicken, as well as chicken products, from Asia and Australia due to a biosecurity risk, Loop reported.

Mohamad Sabu, Malaysias Agriculture and Food Security Minister, said the government will only continue to import eggs from India until domestic supplies have stabilised, Malay Mail reported.

The annual Animal Agriculture Sustainability Summit will once again be held at the 2023 International Production & Processing Expo (IPPE) in Atlanta, Georgia, the United States.