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Government must support exporters to meet Halal requirements and standards to improve Uganda’s meat exports to the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

UAE is increasingly becoming a key trade partner with Uganda and continues to present exporters with various trade opportunities, some of which remain unexploited.

However, speaking during a government-to-government engagement between Uganda and UAE, Mr Amos Tindyebwa, the Fresh Cuts managing director, said Uganda’s private sector is exporting less than its potential, particularly to UAE and the Middle East, because of challenges of meeting Halaal requirements.

Exporters, especially in the beef and poultry sector, he said, had been using Halaal standards from the Uganda Muslim Supreme Council, but this was changed after UAE demanded that exporters were required to use its approved standards.

“This has been a complicated process for Ugandan exporters to process Halaal compliance because it involves high costs, unpredictable providers of Halaal standards and bureaucracies within government, which has kept our meat out of UAE,” Mr Tindyebwa said, noting that entering UAE has remained a challenge to many exporters from Uganda.

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