High Court Bars Cattle Market at Aftabnagar
The High Court has stayed the setting up of a temporary Eid-ul-Azha cattle market at Aftabnagar in the capital.
The High Court has stayed the setting up of a temporary Eid-ul-Azha cattle market at Aftabnagar in the capital.
Cattle markets in the capital were still trading on Eid day as buyers priced out before the festival came back for a cow.
High asking prices pushed most cattle buying in Chattogram's Mirsarai into the last few days before Eid, and every buyer walking home fields the same question.
Stick-wielding volunteers of a cattle market in Munshiganj Sadar shut the Muktarpur-Binodpur road to traffic, causing heavy suffering for commuters.
Demand for wooden chopping blocks and hogla-leaf mats for cutting sacrificial meat rose at Karwan Bazar on the eve of Eid, with prices higher than last year.
With more buyers than cows in Dhaka's markets on the last day before Eid, traders raised their asking prices by Tk 10,000-20,000 a cow.
Attackers hacked four traders at a sacrificial cattle market in Sonargaon and allegedly made off with Tk 5.2 lakh and three cows.
Dhaka North City Corporation has decided to remove sacrificial animal waste within six hours this Eid, deploying more than 10,000 cleaners.
Sacrificial animal markets in Jashore have got busy, with small and medium cattle most in demand and more than 30,000 animals surplus in the district.
Cattle are selling well at Dhaka's sacrificial animal markets, but goat sales have not picked up and sellers fear losses.
With a day to go before Eid, Gabtoli market was crowded with buyers of small and medium cows, while sellers of big cows found almost no takers.
With a day left before Eid, traders at Dhaka's Shanir Akhra market had plenty of animals but few buyers, and hoped the crowds would come in the afternoon.
Lower cow prices in Pabna's Ishwardi ahead of Eid have pleased buyers, while farmers and traders fear losses as supply outstrips demand.