South Korea's Ministry of Agriculture has imposed a ban on pork imports from Germany following a foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) outbreak in the Brandenburg state.

A government ban on pig, sheep and cattle imports from Germany announced on Tuesday did not apply to Northern Ireland. On Thursday, the Department for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs said that it has "strict import controls" in place,

Germany’s farming and food industry is likely to have lost about 1 billion euros ($1 billion) of business following an outbreak of the livestock illness foot-and-mouth disease, the head of the farming cooperatives association told German media on Thursday.