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The five biggest salmon companies in Norway have turned down a meeting with Norweigian government senior ministers over the ground rent tax issue, Fish Information & Services reported.

Pakistans Rawalpindi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (RCCI) has warned the government that 30,000 poultry farms may be shut down and more than 300 feed mills will be affected because of imported soybean meal stuck at ports, ProPakistani reported.

Three government agencies in Davao region, south of the Philippines, have signed an agreement to speed up the recovery of the regions swine industry devastated by African swine fever (ASF), the Philippine News Agency reported.

Argentina may reinstate a special exchange rate for soybean producers to boost exports, as the country needs more grain export dollars to recover its reserves, Hellenic Shipping News reported.

US livestock associations recently submitted comments regarding possible changes to rulemaking that would restructure indemnity regulations.

Protests against the electoral defeat of Brazils President Jair Bolsonaro by truckers and other demonstrators are delaying corn shipments in Mato Grasso, Brazils key farming state, Today Online reported.

Libyas National Centre for Animal Health warned that a strain of the highly pathogenic avian influenza, commonly known as the bird flu virus, is spreading rapidly across the northern Mediterranean.

The government of Edo State, Nigeria, signed a memorandum of understanding with Heifer International and Amor Farms Sieberer Limited to build a modular poultry processing plant that would process 10,000 poultry birds daily.

Canada has launched a $23.4 million programme designed to help the domestic pork industry prepare for the possibility of African swine fever (ASF) entering the country.

Olymels management has announced the closure of its pork processing plant located on St-Jacques street in St-Hyacinthe, Canada.