Around 1,36,920 home-reared sacrificial animals are ready for sale ahead of Eid-ul-Azha in Pabna, whereas the region needs 1,32000 cattle, according to the District Livestock Department. As sufficient numbers of local cattle are already in stocks, the traders have not brought Indian cows, said Dr Abdul Gafur, the district’s livestock officer. The reports on the bad affects of consuming the meat of artificially fattened cattle were widely circulated by print and electronic media, which affected the cattle markets. As a result, the traders who brought hybrid and hefty cattle in the markets had to incur a huge loss. Many other cattle traders and farmers of the region faced the similar loss last year.

Source: Dhaka Tribune September 05, 2016 12:33 UTC