શુક્રવાર, 26 મે, 2017

Centre bans sale of cows for slaughter at animal markets, brings restrictions on cattle trade


The environment ministry has put banned on the sale of cattle at animal markets for the purpose of slaughter - a move that's expected to have huge repercussions on the beef export by the country. Cattle buyers will now have to give an undertaking that the animals are not for slaughter and the market committees will have to check the buyers' bonafides and keep records of sale. The records should be preserved for six months. According to new rule for six months cattle buyers cannot sell the animals outside the state without permission.

The central regulation for cattle business notified this week allows only farmland owners to trade at animal markets. The notification covers bulls, bullocks, cows, buffalos, steers, heifers and calves, as well as the camel trade.


There is no ban on beef in Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Tripura and Sikkim. While cow slaughter was banned in 1939 in Manipur, which at the time was a princely state, beef is now widely consumed by its people.


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