The state has put a halt to the Big Apple’s bid to ban foie gras — and one upstate farm has ducked financial catastrophe as a result.

“This is the best news we could have gotten for Christmas,” Sergio Saravia, whose La Belle Farm in upstate Sullivan County sued to stop the ban, told The Post.

Had the city’s proposed Local Law 202 gone into effect, Saravia says more than 100 jobs would have been lost at La Belle Farm alone.

The bill would have banned sales of the French delicacy in the five boroughs. It was passed in 2019 and due to take effect last month. But upstate farmers, reliant on their NYC customer base, sued and a judge halted the law’s enforcement before it could begin.

The state Department of Agriculture and Markets decided Thursday the city’s foie gras ban would have interfered with the business of the farms, a violation of state law.

“From our perspective, it is a game changer.  We hope the City decides to abandon the local law and perhaps shift its resources to other priorities, but the farmers are prepared to continue fighting if the City chooses to challenge the order,” lawyer Edward Phillips, who reps the farm, said.

Foie gras, a type of French pate, is made from the fattened livers of ducks or geese, who are force fed. Animal rights activists behind the ban call the use of tubes to force feed the animals inhumane and say foie gras is cruel.

The city has 30 days to ask a court to review the state’s decision.

“We are reviewing the letter and determining next steps,” a Law Department spokesman said.