A total of 1 lakh 19 thousand 697 lakh sacrificial animals have been prepared for upcoming Eid-ul-Adha in Kishoreganj.
The farmers and farm owners of the district have been rearing their cattle for Eid. District Livestock Resources Officer said the demand of sacrificial animals in the district is 1 lakh 3 thousand 385. The farmers have prepared adequate cattle. There is a surplus of 16 thousand 317 sacrificial animals in the area, which will be sold outside of the district this season.
Visiting several farms, it was seen that the farmers were rearing their cattle without using any harmful chemicals or medicines. They were fattening their cattle with green grass, wheat, rice, maize and so on. The farmers were rearing their bulls and buffaloes naturally.
According to the Department of Livestock sources of the district, cows, buffaloes, sheep and goats are being reared naturally in some 10 thousand farms of the district. The farms were monitored so that none can use harmful medicines for cattle fattening. Officers of the department are continuously monitoring the farms. Besides, ID was opened at social media so that the farmers can sell their sacrificial animals online.
Sources said medical teams of the Department of Livestock will visit more than one hundred Haats of sacrificial animals to examine the sick animals and resist the sellers to sell those in Haats.
Several farm owners of Kishoreganj said they have been rearing sacrificial animals for a year with a view to making good profit. The price of the cattle might be bit higher this year than the previous years as the price of cattle feed and other costs are high this year. They expressed their hope to make a good profit this year. However, the presence of wholesale buyers is less this year so far.
District Livestock Officer Subhash Chandra Pandit said the farmers in 13 upazilas of the district have reared their cattle following natural process. The farmers prepared more sacrificial animals than the demand here. The rest of the animals will go outside the district.
He also said our teams are continuously monitoring the cattle farms so that no sacrificial animals become sick due to excessive heat amid the ongoing heatwave. Upazila Livestock Officers were asked to monitor the farmers so that they would not use any harmful medicine such as steroid, pump tablet, and hormone to fatten their cattle.
