Thailand's pork and chicken exports have soared significantly as pork production in many countries has dropped due to African swine fever (ASF), said the Thai Ministry of Commerce's Office of Agricultural Economics (OAE).
The CP Vietnam Corporation, based in the southern province of Binh Phuoc, plans to invest in a project to raise and process 100 million chickens per year for export.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) has released a national plan for monitoring food safety for processed chicken for export to help Vietnam’s chicken conquer the world market.
The Republic of Korea (RoK) has recently decided to resume import of Thailand’s chicken after a 12–year pause due to the avian influenza outbreak in 2004, Thailand’s media report.