BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s poultry exports fell in both value and volume in May from a year earlier, government data showed on Thursday, as trade restrictions following a bird flu case weighed on the sector.

Herlon Brandao, director of Statistics and Foreign Trade Studies at the Ministry of Development, Industry, Trade and Services, said at a press conference that poultry exports had been on the rise before the outbreak, the first on a commercial farm in Brazil.

In May, poultry exports fell 12.9% to $655 million, while volumes declined 14.4% to about 363,100 metric tons.

(Reporting by Marcela Ayres; additional reporting by Roberto Samora in Sao Paulo; Writing by Andre Romani, Editing by Natalia Siniawski)

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