DADU, Nov 17 Prices of sacrificial animals are high as compared to the previous Eidul Azha at the cattle market of Bhan Syedabad.

This was revealed in a visit to the market on Tuesday.

Cattle owners from Mehar, Khairpur Nathan Shah, Johi, Sehwan, Kotri, Moro, Nawab Shah, Sanghar and Larkana have brought goats, sheep, camels, buffalos and cows to Bhan Syedabad to sell and traders from Karachi, Hyderabad and other cities have arrived to purchase them.

Many people could not purchase animals due to high prices.

A trader of Johi, Haji Mujeeb Jamali, said that he purchased four goats for Rs30,000, while the last year, he had purchased four goats for Rs14,000. The trader said he would sell these goats in Johi market.

Roshan Ali Lund said he had sold a bull for Rs40,000 that he had purchased for Rs20,000 eight months ago.

Cattle trader of Karachi, Hameed Khan, who had bought the bull, said that he would sell it in Karachi market and added that cattle market of Bhan Syedabad was expensive as compared to the last year.

Nabi Bux Halepoto said that due to price hike of flour, sugar and ghee, they hardly had money to purchase animal at high prices.

A cattle seller, Hakim Ali Leghari, said that he had brought four cows, paid Rs300 per cow as cattle tax and Rs2,000 to a Jeep from Sehwan to Bhan Syedabad. He said that he had offered cow for Rs35,000 but no one turned to purchase the cows.

A goat seller from Chhinni, Abdul Sattar Alkhani, said that he had sold two of the six goats. He said that he had sold one goat for Rs8,000 and would sell other goats at some other cattle market of Sindh before Eidul Azha.

Irfan Noonari, resident of Village Wahur, complained that he had offered his bull for Rs35,000 but traders of Karachi had offered Rs21,000 only.

He did not sell his animal. He pointed out that economic crisis had affected interiors of Sindh.

Gul Mohammad Burdi of Moro had brought four goats at Bhan Syedabad cattle market. He said that he wanted to sell one goat for Rs7,000, but no one was ready to purchase them.

A local cattle trader, Naeem Ahmed, said that he was returning home without purchasing any animal because prices of cattle heads were three times high as compared to the last year.

Sehwan Taluka Municipal Officer Asghar Bhand said that till date, 16,000 cattle heads were brought to this market for sale. He said that half of the animals had been purchased by traders.