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India's soymeal exports subdued after bird flu

REUTERS, New Delhi
India's soymeal exports have been subdued with buyers in Vietnam, Indonesia and Thailand delaying purchases and deferring shipments following Asia's bird flue outbreak, industry officials said Thursday.
"There is a lot of turbulence in the market because of bird flue," Rajesh Agrawal, chairman of the soybean Processors Association of India (sOPA) said. "Trade is waiting to get a clear picture of the extent of the disease."
Buyers were postponing the signing of contracts and concentrating on steps to contain the spread of the disease, traders said.
They said some soymeal buyers in Vietnam and Thailand had asked suppliers to defer shipments after the epidemic,
which has killed at least 16 people and ravaged poultry flocks in 10 countries.
Eleven of the deaths have been in Vietnam and five people have died of the flue in Thailand.
In Thailand, the poultry sector accounts for about 55 per cent of commercial feed consumption, while it is 35 per cent in Vietnam and 80 percent in Indonesia. Poultry feed formulation needs about 20 per cent soymeal.
Traders said the outbreak of bird flue will not have a big impact on India's soymeal export volumes because the bulk of the sales have been completed.
"We do not have much tonnage to be sold as we are already into our lean months," said Davish Jain, a leading Indore-based soymeal exporter.
Exporters said about 1.5
million tonnes of soymeal have already been shipped out of total export contracts of 2.2 million tonnes signed so far this year.
They said total soymeal exports in the season ending in september should exceed three million tonnes.
sOPA's Agrawal said more than 500,000 tonnes of soymeal had been shipped in January, while about 300,000 tonnes were due to be shipped in February.
Traders said for the next three months, India would probably be the main source for soymeal supplies to southeast Asia.
soymeal from new crops in Brazil, the second-biggest soybean producer after the United states, and Argentina, the third-biggest, are expected to start flowing from April.