Negotiations are underway for the export of processed frozen meat from Myanmar to China, according to local media reports.

A Myanmar delegation and China’s Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs Ma Youxiang held a meeting in Beijing for the official export of Myanmar agricultural products and frozen beef, frozen mutton and frozen duck to China.

In this meeting, they discussed an inspection process by Chinese officials at the Animal Disease Control Center in Kutkai near the Sino-Myanmar border and giving approval to this center, providing Chinese technology and good breeding practices for the expansion of Myanmar husbandry in sheep and goats by Myanmar farmers.

They reportedly discussed giving and producing hybrid sunflower and potato seeds and other important crops by joining hands between agricultural companies from two countries, as well as cooperation in cross-border animal disease control work.

China offered Myanmar the opportunity to buy meat and meat products (frozen) for their domestic consumption but the exporters must abide by ASEAN’s Good Animal Husbandry Practices (GAHP) standards and guidelines in husbandry, food safety and packaging and also they need to produce value-added products too.

According to the data released by the Myanmar Ministry of Economy and Commerce, the bilateral trade between China and Myanmar was over $2 billion in the last financial year and Myanmar was able to export more agricultural products.