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CPF hails historic Saudi chicken export

CP Foods holds a ceremony for the inaugural shipping of chicken meat to Saudi Arabia with 30 containers weighing 600 tonnes at its factory in Bangkok’s Min Buri district. (Photo: Varuth Hirunyatheb)

Charoen Pokphand Foods (CPF) has exported chicken products to Saudi Arabia for the first time since 2004, after getting the green light from Saudi food and drug authorities.

The historic shipment took place just two weeks after Saudi Arabia lifted an 18-year ban on Thai chicken and egg exports.

Thailand’s chicken industry has made significant progress in the Middle Eastern country after years of attempts to restore diplomatic ties between the two nations, Commerce Minister Jurin Laksanawisit said on Monday, as he presided over the…

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