Published 13 Jul,2021 via The Jordan Times AMMAN — As Eid Al Adha draws near, the Kingdom’s livestock merchants say that the amount of live sheep and cattle in the local market is sufficient.
Minister of Agriculture Khaled Hneifat on Sunday assured the public of the sufficient amounts of livestock for sacrifice and denied any increase in prices.
“There are 460,000 head of cattle this year compared with 410,000 last year,” said Hneifat. He noted that the Kingdom imported 629,600 head of sheep this year and only 575,374 sheep last year.
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