Egypt’s cattle trade season pressured by COVID-19 ahead of Eid Al-Adha
Published 29 Jul,2020 via Daily News Egypt - Cattle and sheep seasonal marketplaces are held almost everywhere in Egypt, mostly in the streets outside butcheries and barns, ahead of the Eid Al-Adha holiday, where Egyptians buy sacrificial animals to slaughter and donate part of their meat to the poor as an Islamic ritual.
However, sales at livestock markets, butcheries and beef stores have notably declined this year due to economic slowdown over the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, which has registered nearly 93,000 cases in the country so far, including 4,691 deaths and about 36,000 recoveries.
A few days before the Eid Al-Adha holiday that starts on Friday, Kamel, a butcher and cattle trader, displayed tens of cows, buffalos, sheep and goats outside his shop, which carries his name, in Ain Shams district of the capital Cairo.
“Meat prices are lower than last year, yet the sales are lower as well due to the difficult economic conditions caused by the novel coronavirus,” the trader told Xinhua outside his store.
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