Cattle trade with India
People of Bangladesh need millions of cows every year for religious sacrifice. Such huge number of cows are not raised in Bangladesh. On the other hand, millions of villagers in neighbouring India rear cows to have milk and to plough their farmlands. It is said that India produces the highest quantity of milk in the world. But they do not need a huge number of bulls born naturally every year.
These ground realities influenced an informal regular trade of bulls between India and Bangladesh. A few groups of traders from India used to sell bulls to Bangladeshi traders. An informal chain was developed to do this huge trade, which is illegal as per the laws of both Bangladesh and India. No government can accept such smuggling.
Indeed, Bangladesh and India should initiate legal trading of cows.
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