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New Cattle Trade Rules to Spell Doom For India's Animal Husbandry?

4,959 views · Published 31 May 2017 · 12:51 · Indexed 26 October 2026

Channel: NDTV India · 2017 · News & Politics

On Prime Time, we analyse the impact of the law by the Centre banning sale or purchase of cattle for slaughter at animal markets on the farming community as well as people involved in rearing livestock. Richard Mahapatra, Managing Editor, Down To Earth explains how the rural economy thrives heavily on sale and purchase of cattle and that people involved in dairy farming would find it very hard to sell non-productive cattle and will have to switch over to other vocations with this law in place. Rajendra Singh Gill, a farmer from Punjab says that the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act forbids anyone from overcrowding cattle in their shelters and with the new law that bans selling cattle at markets would put farmers in crisis because they have to breed cattle in order to milk them. (Audio in Hindi)

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New Cattle Trade Rules to Spell Doom For India's Animal Husbandry?

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