UNB, Dhaka :
With the Eid-ul-Azha only five days away, cattle markets in the capital and elsewhere are seeing a good supply of sacrificial animals, mainly the local ones.
According to reports reaching the UNB news desk from its correspondents in frontier districts, the cattle influx from the neighbouring country has resumed after months of fall in supply. They said a good number of cattle entered the country from India during the last month’s flood due to relaxed monitoring by Indian border guards at that time, and those sacrificial animals have already reached the markets in the capital and other areas.
According to the Department of Livestock Services (DLS), 50-55 lakh cattle will be scarified across the country during the Eid-ul-Azha on September 13 and around 80 percent of the total demand can be met by home-grown ones. Cattle sales have already started gathering pace across the country and there will be a further momentum on Friday in capital Dhaka. Visiting the Gabtoli cattle market, the largest of the 24 such approved cattle markets in the capital, on Thursday it was seen that an adequate number of sacrificial animals, including cow, bull, goat, sheep and camel, were there with the flocking of huge buyers. Talking to UNB, Gabtoli Cattle Market management committee director Sanwar Hossain
said the number of Indian cattle is relatively thin in their market this time. “Local people have produced huge livestock and we hope there’ll be no shortage of cattle.”
Khilkhet Banorupa cattle market convener Nuruzzaman said their market is witnessing an adequate supply of sacrificial animals. “Both Indian and local cattle are being brought here. We hope the prices will remain affordable.” In Kurigram, illegal flow of cattle in the district, which shares a 270 km border with neighbouring India, has sharply increased over the last few days. Though there is only one designated corridor through Dharla Bridge for transporting the cattle brought from India with a duty of Tk 500 per cattle, herds of cattle are being sneaked in through over 20 routes across the district by cattle smugglers. Bypassing the corridor routes, several unscrupulous people living in border areas are involved in the smuggling.
Contacted, Brig Gen Shahriar Ahmed Chowdhury, regional commander of Rangpur Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB), said they are looking into the matter, and they will increase their surveillance so that no illegal cattle can enter the country.
With the Eid-ul-Azha only five days away, cattle markets in the capital and elsewhere are seeing a good supply of sacrificial animals, mainly the local ones.
According to reports reaching the UNB news desk from its correspondents in frontier districts, the cattle influx from the neighbouring country has resumed after months of fall in supply. They said a good number of cattle entered the country from India during the last month’s flood due to relaxed monitoring by Indian border guards at that time, and those sacrificial animals have already reached the markets in the capital and other areas.
According to the Department of Livestock Services (DLS), 50-55 lakh cattle will be scarified across the country during the Eid-ul-Azha on September 13 and around 80 percent of the total demand can be met by home-grown ones. Cattle sales have already started gathering pace across the country and there will be a further momentum on Friday in capital Dhaka. Visiting the Gabtoli cattle market, the largest of the 24 such approved cattle markets in the capital, on Thursday it was seen that an adequate number of sacrificial animals, including cow, bull, goat, sheep and camel, were there with the flocking of huge buyers. Talking to UNB, Gabtoli Cattle Market management committee director Sanwar Hossain
said the number of Indian cattle is relatively thin in their market this time. “Local people have produced huge livestock and we hope there’ll be no shortage of cattle.”
Khilkhet Banorupa cattle market convener Nuruzzaman said their market is witnessing an adequate supply of sacrificial animals. “Both Indian and local cattle are being brought here. We hope the prices will remain affordable.” In Kurigram, illegal flow of cattle in the district, which shares a 270 km border with neighbouring India, has sharply increased over the last few days. Though there is only one designated corridor through Dharla Bridge for transporting the cattle brought from India with a duty of Tk 500 per cattle, herds of cattle are being sneaked in through over 20 routes across the district by cattle smugglers. Bypassing the corridor routes, several unscrupulous people living in border areas are involved in the smuggling.
Contacted, Brig Gen Shahriar Ahmed Chowdhury, regional commander of Rangpur Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB), said they are looking into the matter, and they will increase their surveillance so that no illegal cattle can enter the country.
