Cattle Trade
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Animal Welfare Board questioned in 2016 over jurisdiction to set cattle trade rules: Indian Express
A Right to Information query showed that Joint Secretary Anil Sant had pointed out that framing such rules was under the purview of the states.
Scroll Staff
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SC puts cattle trade rules on hold but Delhi’s buffalo market is deserted – for fear of mobs
Supply from Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Haryana has dwindled to a trickle because of attacks by gau rakshaks.
Abhishek Dey
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How the growing cow protectionism can hurt cattle (especially male) in India
Farmers usually weed out bullocks as the milch cows are more valuable to them. With sale of cattle for slaughter in markets banned, where will they go?
Abhishek Rajan
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Rules that banned sale of cattle for slaughter in open markets will be revised – but not immediately
Environment ministry plans to kickstart a review of the rules by consulting state governments.
Nitin Sethi
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In drought-hit Tamil Nadu, new cattle trade rules threaten to decimate small farmers
Dalits, in particular, are angry over prohibition on the sale of cattle for slaughter.
Sruthisagar Yamunan
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‘Why do this to the poor?’: Beef supplies contract in Mumbai as new cattle rules kick in
The Central government’s new livestock trade rules are affecting the supply and consumption of buffalo meat in the city.
Aarefa Johari
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Cattle trade rules: In Maharashtra’s milk district, dairy farmers say it’s the end of their business
In Ahmednagar, the state’s top milk producing district, traders and dairy cooperatives are also distressed.
Mridula Chari
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‘It has fallen by 75%’: How North India’s beef hysteria is destroying West Bengal’s cattle trade
Cattle traders and farmers at one of the state’s largest livestock markets are staring down the barrel as vigilantes cut off the inter-state trade in cows.
Shoaib Daniyal
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‘It is impossible here’: Centre’s cattle slaughter rules have BJP leaders in the North East worried
As a BJP leader in Meghalaya quits in protest, his party colleagues in other states in the region assert there is no beef ban.
Ipsita Chakravarty
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The last straw: Herders say new animal market rules will drive the camel to extinction
But proponents of last week’s ban say it will fortify a similar law enacted by Rajasthan in 2015.
Abhishek Dey
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'Do we have to wind up our business?': Popular Kerala cattle market reels under Centre’s new rules
Over 1,000 cattle used to be sold at Chelari weekly market. After the ban, only 300 were on sale.
TA Ameerudheen
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At Jharkhand site where cattle traders were lynched, both farmers and cattle struggle for water
Tribal farmers, who previously sold cattle in the dry months before the monsoon, are unable to sell now as they fear the repercussions.
Anumeha Yadav
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