Question

what is the effect of food processing sector and retail sector in corona virus to related ASEAN

to related in ASEAN

Answer 1

Indonesia has seen export volumes for its palm oil, its top agricultural commodity, drop significantly since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak, with even greater slumps predicted to occur. During the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak, South Korea has seen an rise of over 90 per cent in online food product transactions, but continues to face trade-related challenges even as the nation tries to relax.

Fresh produce experts in Australia and New Zealand have criticized the benefits of directly disinfecting fruits and vegetables as promoted through a viral video and national news, calling it a 'dangerous' food health threat. Fresh food markets, food trading outlets and selected clothing stores in shopping malls have slowly reopened after COVID-19As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak, Japan has partially relaxed its typically strict food labeling rules to better satisfy food processing firms who need to change their production processes or raw materials in their supply chains.

Several countries have witnessed widespread hysteria purchasing food and beverages in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, but the UAE seems to have been spared the worst of excessive consumer behaviour. Scientists from Asia, the Middle East, and the West are now trialing omega-3, honey, and even potato-resistant starch, in addition to vitamins and zinc, as they try to find goods that might contribute to the battle against COVID-19 and its symptoms.

The meat industry in Pakistan has called on the government to exclude or at least subsidize all meat mills from taxes that would usually have to be charged in view of the major contributions that the sector has rendered to food security in the COVID-19 pandemic..