Mohammad Badrul Ahsan :
Sacrificial animals from across the country have started pouring into the traditional and makeshift cattle markets in the city almost a weak ahead of the holy Eid-ul-Azha mainly to avert extortion, traders and organizers said.
Many of them alleged that they used to be forced to pay a good sum of extortion in different points to reach to the city cattle markets which pushes up the cost of cattle, so they have adopted the technique to come earlier to avert the illegal practices of miscreants.
However, according to official sources, authority concern has taken tight security measures through engaging members of police, Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) and Ansars side by sides plainclothes men of law enforcers in and outside the cattle markets as well as city entry points to ensure safe reaching of cattle heads and maintain an unperturbed trade atmosphere in the markets.
Talking to The New Nation, a numbers of cattle traders have expressed satisfaction over the security steps taken ahead of Eid by the authority to make safe their ways of bringing the animals to market places.
They, however also said the law enforcers, in almost all the Eid season seen helpless to the political musclemen.
Liakat Ali Bepary from Kustia at city’s Aftab Nagar market said they did not pay any money as illegal toll to anybody on their way to the market or at market venue till Tuesday. They had bitter experiences of paying toll to the miscreants at least at 8 to 10 points for the last five or six years.
While visiting a numbers of traditional, makeshift cattle markets and a few mini markets in the city, it was observed that the cattle heads are started reaching in good numbers
Jasim Bepary at Gabtoli Bazar who came from Chapainowabganj district told The New nation that he has brought 28 big size cows in Dhaka for sale.
Besides, Abul Kalam, Faruk Mridha, Samsul Haque and some other cattle traders who used to do the seasonal cattle trading ahead of every Eid-Ul-Azha said they prefer to trade Indian cattle this year due to better prices and huge supply.
However, although selling and buying of sacrificial animals is yet gain momentum at the markets, traders are hopeful of starting their transactions in fullswing soon and will continue till midnight of 12 September.
“Trading of cattle has started in small number. Main transaction would start from next Friday,” said a trader.
Meanwhile, due to huge supply of sacrificial animals in local markets from the next door neighbor–India, according to our correspondents of different border areas and after conversation with traders, local cattle rears are in fear of huge amount of losses during the Eid, the main season of their business.
“Huge supply of cattle from India to Bangladesh may leave an adverse impact to our business,” said Aminul Islam, a trader at the city’s Gabtoli Cattle Market.
“If the illegal inflow of cattle does not stop, local traders may lose their interest to rear cattle in coming years which would not be good for our economy,” he added.
Many of the cattle traders said prices of sacrificial animals increased sharply a month ago as farmers and traders thought the prices would be higher than the previous year as cattle supply from India was restricted till then. But the scenario started changing for the last couple of days as Indian suppliers in collaboration with a section of local traders started supplying huge number of cows in Bangladesh.
Our correspondents of border areas said local traders are bringing huge number of cattle through legal and illegal ways and spreading those across the country.
However, there are twenty cattle markets excluding temporary markets under the supervision of the Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) and Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC). Leasing these markets, both the city corporations earn around Tk 150 million every year.
Of those, Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) set up 12 cattle markets, while Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) set up the remaining eight. Apart from these, there is a permanent cattle market in Gabtoli.
Sacrificial animals from across the country have started pouring into the traditional and makeshift cattle markets in the city almost a weak ahead of the holy Eid-ul-Azha mainly to avert extortion, traders and organizers said.
Many of them alleged that they used to be forced to pay a good sum of extortion in different points to reach to the city cattle markets which pushes up the cost of cattle, so they have adopted the technique to come earlier to avert the illegal practices of miscreants.
However, according to official sources, authority concern has taken tight security measures through engaging members of police, Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) and Ansars side by sides plainclothes men of law enforcers in and outside the cattle markets as well as city entry points to ensure safe reaching of cattle heads and maintain an unperturbed trade atmosphere in the markets.
Talking to The New Nation, a numbers of cattle traders have expressed satisfaction over the security steps taken ahead of Eid by the authority to make safe their ways of bringing the animals to market places.
They, however also said the law enforcers, in almost all the Eid season seen helpless to the political musclemen.
Liakat Ali Bepary from Kustia at city’s Aftab Nagar market said they did not pay any money as illegal toll to anybody on their way to the market or at market venue till Tuesday. They had bitter experiences of paying toll to the miscreants at least at 8 to 10 points for the last five or six years.
While visiting a numbers of traditional, makeshift cattle markets and a few mini markets in the city, it was observed that the cattle heads are started reaching in good numbers
Jasim Bepary at Gabtoli Bazar who came from Chapainowabganj district told The New nation that he has brought 28 big size cows in Dhaka for sale.
Besides, Abul Kalam, Faruk Mridha, Samsul Haque and some other cattle traders who used to do the seasonal cattle trading ahead of every Eid-Ul-Azha said they prefer to trade Indian cattle this year due to better prices and huge supply.
However, although selling and buying of sacrificial animals is yet gain momentum at the markets, traders are hopeful of starting their transactions in fullswing soon and will continue till midnight of 12 September.
“Trading of cattle has started in small number. Main transaction would start from next Friday,” said a trader.
Meanwhile, due to huge supply of sacrificial animals in local markets from the next door neighbor–India, according to our correspondents of different border areas and after conversation with traders, local cattle rears are in fear of huge amount of losses during the Eid, the main season of their business.
“Huge supply of cattle from India to Bangladesh may leave an adverse impact to our business,” said Aminul Islam, a trader at the city’s Gabtoli Cattle Market.
“If the illegal inflow of cattle does not stop, local traders may lose their interest to rear cattle in coming years which would not be good for our economy,” he added.
Many of the cattle traders said prices of sacrificial animals increased sharply a month ago as farmers and traders thought the prices would be higher than the previous year as cattle supply from India was restricted till then. But the scenario started changing for the last couple of days as Indian suppliers in collaboration with a section of local traders started supplying huge number of cows in Bangladesh.
Our correspondents of border areas said local traders are bringing huge number of cattle through legal and illegal ways and spreading those across the country.
However, there are twenty cattle markets excluding temporary markets under the supervision of the Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) and Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC). Leasing these markets, both the city corporations earn around Tk 150 million every year.
Of those, Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) set up 12 cattle markets, while Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) set up the remaining eight. Apart from these, there is a permanent cattle market in Gabtoli.
