Crops
Sacrificial Cattle Prices Rise Tk 10,000-15,000 Each Time They Change Hands
A Pabna farmer's two bulls changed hands three times on the way to Dhaka, with the price rising at each step, showing how traders profit between farm and city.
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Agribusiness
How to Spot Artificially Fattened Sacrificial Animals
Prof Dr Md Bahanur Rahman of Bangladesh Agricultural University sets out how buyers can tell artificially fattened cattle from healthy ones and urges farmers to fatten animals naturally.
Agribusiness
More Lookers Than Buyers at Faridpur's Tepakhola Cattle Market
Faridpur's largest cattle market, Tepakhola, is crowded ahead of Eid, but sellers outnumber buyers, big cattle have little demand and prices are lower.
Livestock
Demand for Tamarind Wood Chopping Blocks Rises as Eid-ul-Azha Nears
Ahead of Eid-ul-Azha, demand for wooden chopping blocks, especially tamarind, is rising in Barishal, with blocks selling for Tk 300 to 1,000 depending on size.
Livestock
Dhaka's Two City Corporations to Host 19 Temporary Cattle Markets for Eid-ul-Azha
Nineteen temporary animal markets will be held in Dhaka's two city corporations for Eid-ul-Azha, though a protest-driven lockout has delayed several DSCC leases.
Livestock
12 Cattle Looted From Pickup on the Way to Market
Robbers looted 12 sacrificial cattle from a pickup on the Dhaka-Chattogram highway in Sitakunda, and police have yet to recover the animals.
Agribusiness
Markets Slow, Chuadanga Farmers Worried Over Large Cattle
Days before Eid-ul-Azha, Chuadanga farmers who fattened large cattle are anxious as costs rise, markets stay slow and traders stay away.
Agribusiness
Cattle Market Toll Is 5 Percent Now, Request to Cut It to 4
The home adviser says local government bodies have been asked to cut the cattle market toll to 4 per cent from next year, as this year's tenders are already done.
Livestock
Railway Asks That No Cattle Markets Be Set Up Near Tracks Without Approval
The railway authority has asked all concerned not to hold cattle markets on railway land or beside rail lines without prior approval from Bangladesh Railway.
Livestock
Instruction Not to Lease 217 Cattle Markets Beside Highways
A stakeholder meeting in Dhaka told officials not to lease 217 identified sacrificial animal markets on or beside highways ahead of Eid-ul-Azha.
Livestock
No Cattle Market in Two Aftabnagar Blocks and Part of Sun Valley
The High Court has stayed a temporary Eid-ul-Azha cattle market in two blocks of Aftabnagar's Eastern Housing and part of Sun Valley, leased out by Dhaka North City Corporation.
Fisheries
Special Trains to Carry Sacrificial Animals Again This Year
Special trains will again carry sacrificial animals this year, from North Bengal via Dhaka to Chattogram, the fisheries and livestock adviser said.
Livestock
1.25 Crore Animals Ready for Qurbani, Surplus Could Reach 20 Lakh
Bangladesh has 1,24,47,337 animals fit for sacrifice this Eid-ul-Azha, and about 20,68,135 may be left over, the fisheries and livestock adviser said.