Lok Sabha Question No. 105 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2015-11-30
Subject: Export of Meat
Ministry: COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY
Asked by: DEVJI MANSINGRAM PATEL

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF COMMERCE & INDUSTRY (DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE)

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 105 TO BE ANSWERED ON 30 TH  NOVEMBER, 2015

## EXPORT OF MEAT

## 105(H).SHRI DEVJI M. PATEL:

Will the Minister of COMMERCE & INDUSTRY ( वाणिज्य एवं उद्योग मंत्री ) be pleased to state:

- a) the registered meat exporters/ companies in the country at present;
- b) the quantity and value of meat/cattle meat exported from the country during each of the last three years and the current year, cattle and country-wise;
- c) whether the meat of camel is being exported despite ban on it; and
- d) if so, the details thereof along with the action taken by the Government against the guilty companies?

## ANSWER

वाणिज् य एवं उद्योग राज् य मंत्री )श्रीमती निममला सीतारमि((स्वतंत्र प्रभार ) THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY

(INDEPENDENT CHARGE) (SMT. NIRMALA SITHARAMAN)

There are 64 Abattoirs-cum-Meat Processing Plants/stand alone Abattoirs and 38 meat processing plants registered with Agricultural Processed Export Development Authority (APEDA) in the country at present.

- (a) The quantity and value of meat exported from the country during each of last three years and the current year, product and country-wise is given below.  As per Foreign Trade Policy of the Government, meat export of beef which covers cows, oxen, bulls and calves is prohibited and is not allowed.
- (i) EXPORT OF MEAT AND MEAT PRODUCTS:

Quantity in MT/Value in US$ Million

|            | 2012-13   | 2012-13   | 2013-14   | 2013-14   | 2014-15   | 2014-15   | 2015-16 (Upto Sept.)   | 2015-16 (Upto Sept.)   |
|------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|------------------------|------------------------|
| COMMODITY  | Qty       | VALUE     | Qty       | VALUE     | Qty       | VALUE     | Qty                    | VALUE                  |
| BUFFALO    | 1076103   | 3201.14   | 1365643   | 4350.38   | 1475540   | 4781.18   | 59884                  | 1889.98                |
| OTHER MEAT | 194       | 0.43      | 268       | 0.55      | 262       | 0.44      | -                      | -                      |
| PROCESSED  | 796       | 1.73      | 508       | 1.29      | 405       | 2.29      | 27                     | 0.91                   |

| MEAT            |         |         |         |         |         |         |       |         |
|-----------------|---------|---------|---------|---------|---------|---------|-------|---------|
| SHEEP/GOAT MEAT |   15287 |   78.35 |   22608 |  115.37 |   23614 |  135.71 |  1250 |   72.75 |
| Grand Total     | 1092380 | 3281.65 | 1389027 | 4467.59 | 1499821 | 4919.62 | 61161 | 1963.64 |

Source: DGCI&S

## (ii) Country-wise (top five) export of meat

Source: DGCI&S

Quantity in MT/Value in Rs.Crore

|             | 2012-13    | 2012-13   | 2013-14    | 2013-14   | 2014-15    | 2014-15   | 2015-16 (Apr to Sep)   | 2015-16 (Apr to Sep)   |
|-------------|------------|-----------|------------|-----------|------------|-----------|------------------------|------------------------|
| COUNTRY     | QTY        | VAL       | QTY        | VAL       | QTY        | VAL       | QTY                    | VAL                    |
| VIETNAM     | 302556.15  | 5129.19   | 524483.90  | 10976.18  | 633939.42  | 13210.11  | 208533.10              | 4586.80                |
| EGYPT       | 71295.33   | 1257.20   | 107825.72  | 2033.33   | 128082.00  | 2574.03   | 80948.00               | 1659.03                |
| MALAYSIA    | 115360.03  | 1943.71   | 121713.22  | 2356.42   | 130876.81  | 2586.03   | 69623.90               | 1381.61                |
| SAUDI ARAB  | 73852.09   | 1301.22   | 80432.32   | 1691.79   | 80844.87   | 1844.36   | 33315.75               | 805.49                 |
| IRAQ        | 24738.20   | 352.99    | 29992.00   | 526.77    | 23602.54   | 406.16    | 24665.46               | 449.18                 |
| Others      | 504571.47  | 7862.86   | 524565.87  | 9578.52   | 502459.96  | 9506.88   | 194604.77              | 3762.94                |
| Grand Total | 1092373.26 | 17847.17  | 1389013.03 | 27163.01  | 1499805.59 | 30127.56  | 611690.98              | 12645.04               |

(c ) & (d) As per Foreign Trade Policy of the Government, export and import of live camel is 'restricted' and meat of the camel is 'free'.   However, no export of meat of  camel during the last  three  years  and  the  current  year  (Upto September, 2015) has been made.

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