Sales of sacrificial animals at the hats and markets of the district has been started in the full swing ahead of holy Eid-ul-Azha. Aiming to capture the Eid market, a huge number of sacrificial animals including bulls, goats and sheeps are being stacked to the cattle markets of the district. Those markets are likely to filled with a huge number of customers as soon as the Eid holiday starts at the weekend.
Rajshahi District Animal Resources department sources informed, demand of sacrificial animals of the district is numbering 404,500 during the current year. There is a total of 17,700 cattle farms in the district. In 2018, a total of 3,96,519 cattle-heads were sacrificed in the district out of which 2,981 were calves, 71,256 bulls, 745 buffaloes, 317,694 goat and 3,843 sheep.
The source further informed, till now there are 3,69,574 stocks of cattle heads in the farms and cow-sheds of people of the districts of which 6,018 are calves, 71,831 bulls, 2,675 buffaloes, 274,075 goats and 13,675 sheep and 1,136 other animals.
Matiur Rahman, a cattle trader at Baneswar hat informed, with the approaching of the Eid day, the hastiness of cattle traders has also been increased. The cattle traders at Bidirpur frontier hat informed, earlier a huge number of cattle heads used to enter the country from India but now there having sufficient local bred and locally reared cattle heads, the demand of Indian cattle heads has been decreased.
A huge number of locally bred cattle heads were seen to bring for sale at Rajshahi city hat, Banewar Hat, Rustompur hat, Chandipur hat, Bidirpur hat and Mohisalbari hat of the district.
He hoped, this year, there will be no need of smuggled calves and bulls from India during Eid marketing but there is a huge demand for buffaloes in Chattogram, Sylhet and Dhaka, as a result, with a limited number of bulls, a large number of buffaloes are being smuggled from India from various frontier roots of Rajshahi and Chapainawabganj districts.
