'Digital Payment Booths' Open at Six Dhaka Cattle Markets
Dhaka North City Corporation has opened digital payment booths at six cattle markets to make Qurbani transactions safe and easy.
Dhaka North City Corporation has opened digital payment booths at six cattle markets to make Qurbani transactions safe and easy.
Cattle are pouring into Dhaka's Aftabnagar market a week before Eid-ul-Azha, but visitors are mostly looking and traders are waiting for buyers.
With buyers scarce because of Covid-19 and floods, sacrificial cattle are selling cheaply this Eid, pleasing buyers but leaving the farmers who raised them at a loss.
A Kushtia trader who raised a bull called Shanto for two and a half years has brought it to Dhaka's Rahmatganj market hoping to sell it for Tk 6 lakh.
Khulna's cattle markets have plenty of animals but few buyers two days before Eid, with many middle-class families staying away because of the coronavirus.
Traders with big cattle at Old Dhaka's Rahmatganj market are finding few buyers, and those who come offer far below the asking price.