March 24 (Reuters) - South-Africa listed Astral Foods

said on Monday it had experienced a cybersecurity

incident earlier this month, which would hit its profit by about

20 million rand ($1.10 million) for the six months ending March

31.

The company expects headline earnings of 354 cents per share

for the first half of the fiscal year after its poultry

division was hit by downtime due to the incident that delayed

processing and deliveries.

($1 = 18.1416 rand)