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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | As business slumps, anxiety grips U.P.'s cattle markets -Jacob Koshy

As business slumps, anxiety grips U.P.'s cattle markets -Jacob Koshy

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published Published on Jun 12, 2017   modified Modified on Jun 16, 2017
-The Hindu

Managers of around 3,000 privately-run markets are to meet and protest new rules that ban sale of animals for slaughter at cattle markets

Fridays are festive days at Pachokhara.

For nearly half-a-century now, farmers, cattle-rearers and tradesmen have made the weekly trip to the cricket stadium-sized grounds of the Upadhyay family— prominent local land-owners — to trade cattle.

A dirt road splits the ground into a section for buffaloes and another for cows, bulls, oxen and goats. There’s cash changing hands, frisky calves, hillocks of dung and no spot safe from a restive bovine’s quick but lethal flick of the hind leg.

And yet, it’s a lean day in Pachokhara in Firozabad district of Uttar Pradesh, a good 230 kms from the national capital.

Slowdown in business

“Usually, Fridays are so crowded that newcomers will not be able to make their way to the exit…but now business is down,” says Anup Upadhyay (34), one of the younger members of the family, who oversees the functioning of the market.

There are multiple causes for the slow day. July to November are considered peak months for the cattle trade because farmers have spent money for sowing and other crop operations and are usually in need of cash till the harvest. Then there’s the weather, with the hot months generally considered insalubrious for ferrying animals.

This year there’s another obstacle in the form of the amendment to the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act (1961) that governs the treatment of animals. The Union Environment Ministry on May 23 decreed that buffaloes and cattle could not be sold for slaughter at animal markets. Moreover, bovines once sold at such markets, could cannot traded for at least six months and all sales and records will come under the purview of a dedicated District Monitoring Committee.

To Mr. Upadhyay, these rules are the final blow to the cattle-trading business, which has been reeling under the assaults of cow vigilante groups. The danger of being way-laid and harassed — by both the police and vigilantes — for appropriate papers has already prevented several farmers from bringing their animals to the market.

“There is a fear and lots of rumours… Buffaloes cannot be sold…Bulls can’t be sold. These fuel uncertainty and keep farmers and sellers away,” he said, listing the pressures on the business.

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The Hindu, 11 June, 2017, http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/as-business-slumps-anxiety-grips-ups-cattle-markets/article18961039.ece?homepage=true


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