AgribusinessAbout 92 lakh of the 1.23 crore animals prepared for Eid-ul-Azha on 28 May 2026 were sacrificed. According to the Department of Livestock Services and traders, some 31 lakh animals were left unsold, leaving farmers facing losses and the extra cost of feed and care.
HealthA 14-year-old boy died in Islampur, Jamalpur, on Eid-ul-Azha, 28 May 2026, after a piece of sacrificial beef lodged in his throat during the family meal; the upazila health officer said he died before reaching hospital.
LivestockMore than 200 people in Brahmanbaria were treated in hospital on Eid-ul-Azha, 28 May 2026, after being hurt while slaughtering sacrificial animals and cutting the meat. Most had knife cuts; a few were kicked or shoved by cattle and buffaloes.
LivestockMohammad Selim, a trader from Natore who brought ten cows to Dhaka's Shanir Akhra market before Eid-ul-Azha 2026, told Jago News one of them was stolen late on 26 May; he had sold four.
AgribusinessOn the afternoon of Eid-ul-Azha 2026, a makeshift market of butchers' trimmed meat on Dhaka's Rampura bridge, where sellers asked Tk 350 to 400 a kilo, drew rickshaw pullers and garment workers who could not afford to offer Qurbani.
LivestockDr Mohammad Mahbubul Alam, deputy director of the Central Artificial Insemination Laboratory in Savar, fell ill on official duty at the Radio Colony cattle market on 27 May 2026 and died on the way to hospital; the fisheries and livestock ministers mourned his death.
LivestockA woman was gored by a cow at Gharmora Bazar in Homna upazila of Cumilla at noon on 25 May 2026, ahead of Eid-ul-Azha, and was declared dead at the upazila health complex, police said.
EnvironmentThree days before Eid-ul-Azha 2026, Rangpur City Corporation's administrator, Mahfuz Un Nabi Don, said on 25 May that sacrificial waste could be cleared within 12 hours if cleaners worked sincerely, as 855 cleaners received Tk 5,000 each as an Eid gift.
LivestockDepartment of Livestock Services figures show 5.659 million cattle were sacrificed in 2019 but only 4.65 million in 2025; with rearing costs up and buyers switching to goats, marginal farmers say they are cutting back on cattle.
LivestockAhead of Eid-ul-Azha 2026, a roughly 1,006kg Sahiwal bull named Lal Mia, raised on natural feed for four years in Barishal's Babuganj, was drawing daily crowds to a small dairy farm.
