Photo: Cowherd driving his cattle along one of the big highways near Palitana, Gujarat, India on March 2, 2017. Anandoart/Shutterstock.com
India’s beef traders and exporters have already begun to face a supply shortage, even as the government’s ban of the sale of cattle for slaughter at animal markets is suspended for four weeks from May 30 and the Supreme Court has set June 15 to hear a petition challenging the ban.
“People are managing with whatever little supply there is. The cattle supply has come down by more than 50 percent,” Sirajuddin Qureshi, president of the All India Jamiatul Quresh told Salaam Gateway. The association of the Quresh community has traditionally been the stalwarts of the meat business in India.
As a result of cattle shortage, many processing plants that used to source up to 90 percent of their livestock from the livestock markets, or mandis, are being forced to scale down daily production and allow capacity to remain idle.
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