Singapore has lifted an import ban on Japanese poultry and other food items effective this month, enabling Tokyo to renew efforts to boost exports of farm and fishery products to Southeast Asia's richest economy.
The city-state now permits imports of poultry, processed poultry products and egg-related items along with processed foods made from beef and pork from Japan, the Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Ministry said Friday.
Singapore suspended Japanese poultry imports in 2010 due to a bird flu outbreak in Japan, ministry official Hisako Okura said.