Buffaloes on a farm in India. Credit: Mcky Stocker
On June 15 India's Supreme Court will hear a petition challenging the government's ban of the sale of cattle for slaughter at animal markets.
The ban, which was announced on May 23, decreed that animal markets will only be able to trade cattle for agricultural purposes, such as ploughing and dairy farming.
India does not officially export cow beef but buffalo meat, which is also categorised as beef, and the ban threatens India's buffalo meat export industry, worth almost $4 billion in the financial year April 2016 to March 2017.
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