date:Mar 19, 2014
d curbs on Brazilian beef imports soon and to finalise a deal to allow in Indian buffalo meat as other import channels shrink.
China's top supplier Australia, which accounted for about half of official imports last year, faces a slump in production.
Drought has forced cattle farmers in the world's third-biggest beef exporter to cull cows, stoking fears of a looming global beef shortage with the herd in rival exporter the United States also at the smallest in six decades.
Concern over supplies