A total of 7,81,000 sacrificial animals are ready for sale ahead of Eid-ul-Azha in Naogaon, Muradnagar in Cumilla and Shariatpur districts.
Naogaon district livestock officer Dr Mohir Uddin said as many as 7,15,410 sacrificial animals have been reared ahead of Eid-ul-Azha in the district. The demand of the sacrificial animals in the district is 330,583. The additional animals, including cows, bulls and goats are being brought to the capital city Dhaka and Chattogram, he added. In Muradnagar upazila of Cumilla district, around 20,000 cows, bulls and goats have been raised ahead of Eid. Sacrificial animals would be sold at 37 hats in the upazila and people, outside Cumilla, come to the upazila to buy their desired animals. Muradnagar upazila livestock officer Mohammad Ali said the demand of the sacrificial animals in the district is about 16,000.
Shariatpur district livestock officer Dr Subod Kumar Das said a total of 46,473 animals are ready for sale in Shariatpur on the occasion of Eid-ul- Azha while the demand of sacrificial animals in the district is around 38,000.
