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.

South Korea has banned all pork imports from Germany after a recent outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in a herd of buffalo in the eastern German state of Brandenburg. The South Korean Ministry of Agriculture announced in a statement on Saturday evening that the ban was effective immediately.

Germany's meat and dairy exports outside the EU face severe restrictions after the country’s first case of the livestock disease foot-and-mouth was confirmed on Friday, the country's agriculture ministry said.

An outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) at a livestock farm outside of Berlin has raised alarm among farmers across the country, even as testing efforts have not yet turned up further cases of the disease.

Germany announced its first outbreak of FMD in nearly 40 years last week in a herd of water buffalo on the outskirts of Berlin in the Brandenburg region.

Germany’s agriculture industry faces sales losses of about €1 billion ($1.03 billion) due to an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease that has led to export restrictions, farm cooperatives group DRV said.

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.