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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | In drought-hit Marathwada, farmers are stuck with thirsty cattle – and official apathy -Mridula Chari

In drought-hit Marathwada, farmers are stuck with thirsty cattle – and official apathy -Mridula Chari

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published Published on Apr 8, 2016   modified Modified on Apr 8, 2016
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Neither the Maharashtra government that imposed a ban on cattle slaughter nor private institutions seem to have sustainable solutions.

It has been four years since many parts of Marathwada in central Maharashtra have had adequate rain. The drought has already resulted in widespread distress and even deaths. In Latur district, a young boy racing to get water from a tanker was crushed under its wheels. Two women died because of the water shortage in Latur city – the younger one of heat while waiting in an endless line for water and her mother of a heart attack when she heard the news. To prevent riots, the city has imposed laws against crowds gathering near water pumps.

At a time when people are scrambling for water, how are cattle faring?

Not very well. Water has already run out in Latur, Beed and Osmanabad. The only fodder on hand is withered sugarcane that could not be processed by factories. Sugarcane generates undue body heat in cattle, but that is all that is available.

For those who rear cattle for a livelihood, the situation has been made worse by the state’s ban on cattle slaughter. The ban was imposed in March 2015, when the President approved an amendment to the Maharashtra Animal Preservation Act of 1976 that had been pending for 20 years. Though many farmers are unable to take care of their cattle, they are prohibited from selling them.

“The law might be correct for a high number of people who worship the cow, but for farmers, it is wrong,” said Laxman Vighne, a veterinarian visiting a fodder camp near Beed. “Farmers can’t take care of their old cattle and they do not give them food. In this way, they die.”

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Scroll.in, 7 April, 2016, http://scroll.in/article/806216/in-drought-hit-marathwada-farmers-are-stuck-with-thirsty-cattle-and-official-apathy


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