DNCC Mayor Annisul Huq told the Dhaka Tribune that city corporation monitoring teams will visit every cattle market. At the makeshift cattle market adjoining Eastern Housing at Mirpur section 6 and at the Gabtoli cattle market, this correspondent found that a large number of cattle traders have arrived from different districts including Pabna, Kushtia, Sirajganj, Rajshahi, Chapainawabganj among others. The traders told the Dhaka Tribune that they set the price of an animal depending on it’s approximate weight. Abdul Momin, a trader who came from Pabna to the Mirpur 6 cattle market, told the Dhaka Tribune: “This year the cattle will be costlier than the previous years. So it will be sold for Tk60,000 at least.”Sifatullah said they came to the cattle market on Saturday.

Source: Dhaka Tribune September 05, 2016 19:44 UTC