* Tunisia has allowed its first poultry imports from Ukraine, the Ukrainian service for food protection said on Thursday. * Ukraine increased its meat exports by 21 percent in value terms in the first nine months of this year to $479 million, helped by higher poultry sales. * Ukraine's poultry exports totalled $381 million in that period, compared with $295 million a year earlier.

(Reporting by Pavel Polityuk; Editing by Jan Harvey) ((pavel.polityuk@tr.com; +380 44 2449150; Reuters Messaging: pavel.polityuk.thomsonreuters.com@reuters.net))