Azerbaijan suspends exports of meat

  27 August 2015    Read: 754
Azerbaijan suspends exports of meat
Since the beginning of this year, Azerbaijan imported meat and food products in the amount of $ 10,992,000, AzVision.az reports.
Oxu.Az reports referring to the State Customs Committee that it is 11.02% less than the same period last year.

In addition, Azerbaijan has not exported meat during last 7 months. For the same period last year Azerbaijan has exported goods for $ 172 380.

As for meat production, according to statment of the State Statistics Committee regarding the above-mentioned period, the country produced 165 300 tons of meat (including poultry), which exceeds last year`s figure by 1.9%.

Some time ago, the head of the State Service for the veterinary supervision of the Ministry of Agriculture Yolchu Khanveli told Oxu.az that in anticipation of the holiday Gurban Bayram in the point of sale vendors will need to present a veterinary documents before their products will be approved for sale.

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