United Arab Emirates have lifted the ban on small cattle imports from Kazakhstan,Indiatalkies reports. This once again allows Kazakhstan to export live sheep and goats and their products from Kazakhstan. According to Rashid Ahmed Bin Fahad, UAE Minister of Environment and Water, the decision to lift the ban was lifted after a recent report of the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE). The report confirmed that there is no risk of goat pox or other epidemic infectious outbreak among small cattle in Kazakhstan. Import of small cattle - sheep and goats - from Kazakhstan was banned by governments of UAE and Ukraine on January 30, 2009. The ban was triggered by one of the earlier World Organization for Animal Health reports stating that chicken pox disease had been detected among these farm animals.
United Arab Emirates have lifted the ban on small cattle imports from Kazakhstan,Indiatalkies reports.
This once again allows Kazakhstan to export live sheep and goats and their products from Kazakhstan.
According to Rashid Ahmed Bin Fahad, UAE Minister of Environment and Water, the decision to lift the ban was lifted after a recent report of the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE). The report confirmed that there is no risk of goat pox or other epidemic infectious outbreak among small cattle in Kazakhstan.
Import of small cattle - sheep and goats - from Kazakhstan was banned by governments of UAE and Ukraine on January 30, 2009. The ban was triggered by one of the earlier World Organization for Animal Health reports stating that chicken pox disease had been detected among these farm animals.