06/03/2007 (Agence Europe) - On 5 March, Zimbabwe announced that it would not be resuming its beef exports to the EU, according to AFP. The EU strictly requires every animal to be marked (on the ear), and this is felt by Zimbabwean operators to be too costly, with the country having been in economic recession for six years. Zimbabwe stopped exporting beef to the EU (and Asia) in 2001, because of a foot and mouth epizootic. Its exports to the EU amounted to around 9,000 tonnes of beef per...