Buyers Tour Markets to Check Prices, Small and Medium Cattle in Demand
Sales at Dhaka's North Shahjahanpur cattle market were slow on 22 May as buyers compared prices, with small and medium cattle drawing most interest.
Sales at Dhaka's North Shahjahanpur cattle market were slow on 22 May as buyers compared prices, with small and medium cattle drawing most interest.
Tighter border surveillance has kept Indian cattle out of Panchagarh's Eid markets this year, leaving them full of local cattle and relieving farmers.
Two huge bulls from a Shahrasti farm, dubbed "Jora King", are drawing crowds in Chandpur ahead of Eid-ul-Azha with an asking price of about Tk 13 lakh.
AgribusinessOn 21 May 2026, buyers at Rajshahi's City Haat crowded around medium cattle priced at Tk 80,000 to Tk 1 lakh, while the district had about 92,000 more sacrificial animals than it needed.
Bogura's Mahasthangarh cattle market is packed with animals before Eid-ul-Azha, but most visitors are only checking prices and sellers fear losses.
LivestockA week before Eid-ul-Azha 2026, Jagonews24 set out how farmers should check, feed, load, rest and protect sacrificial animals on the way to market, from health checks to brokers and harmful fattening injections.
A 16-maund Sahiwal bull called Raja Bahadur, raised on natural feed in Patuakhali's Kalapara, is drawing crowds with an asking price of Tk 5 lakh.
Dhaka South City Corporation will clean its area within eight hours of the end of Eid sacrifices, its administrator said.
Rajshahi has about 92,000 more sacrificial animals than it needs this Eid, and farmers fear they will not recover their rising costs.
A pair of rare pink albino buffaloes at a dairy farm in Ishwardi, Pabna, are drawing buyers and onlookers before Eid-ul-Azha.
A camel named Sultan, the first brought to Cumilla for Eid sacrifice, is drawing hundreds of visitors to a farm in Sadar Dakshin upazila.
Dhaka's two city corporations have leased 19 of 27 planned temporary cattle markets for Eid-ul-Azha, with retenders under way for the rest.
A columnist argues that smuggled cattle, on top of a surplus of sacrificial animals, could drive Bangladesh's livestock farmers into losses this Eid.