Thailand will send a document to the European Union by the end of this month to confirm that the quality of Thai poultry export has been raised to a higher standard so that it will consider resuming poultry import from Thailand. Chairman of the Broiler Raisers for Exporting Association and Saha Farm President Panya Chotitawan, led representatives of Thai farmers and live poultry importers from the EU, in a meeting with Deputy Prime Minister and Commerce Minister Kittirat Na Ranong earlier this week.
Mr Panya said he was assured by the EU importers that they did not want to suspend the import of live chicken and chicken products from Thailand since no new cases of bird flu have been reported in the country. The EU will reconsider the import of live chicken in February next year. If its ban on Thai chicken import is lifted, Thailand will likely resume chicken export to the EU by July next year.
