January 26, 2005

South Korea expected to resume poultry exports to Japan in march

South Korean poultry exports to Japan may resume in late March, the country's Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry said Wednesday.

Tokyo halted imports of poultry after customs inspections confirmed traces of a low-pathogenic H5N2 avian influenza virus at a duck farm in Gwangju, 329 kilometers southwest of Seoul, last month.