Like the past few years, rawhide of the sacrificial animals was being sold at throwaway prices across the country after Eid-ul-Azha, one of the biggest religious festivals of the Muslims, which was celebrated in the country on Monday.
The rawhide was sold at even lower prices this year despite the government setting slightly higher prices for the items compared with those in the past year.
Tanners and wholesale businesses of rawhide blamed field-level seasonal traders for buying the items at low prices while the seasonal traders blamed syndicate of tannery owners for paying lower prices than the government-set rates for the item.
People who sacrificed animals claimed that cowhide was selling at lower prices than the previous year while traders were reluctant to collect goatskin.
Md Pappu, a resident at Mohammadpur in the capital Dhaka, said that he sacrificed a cow buying it for Tk 1.05 lakh and traders offered highest Tk聽350 for the hide.
鈥業 have donated the piece of hide to a madrassah,鈥� he said.
Md Saidur Rahman, a resident of Manikganj, said that a piece of medium-sized cowhide was sold at Tk聽300-400 in his area on the day of Eid-ul-Azha.
Bangladesh Tanners Association chairman Md Shaheen Ahmed on Wednesday told 抖阴精品 that tannery owners were procuring rawhide at the government-set prices.
鈥楾anneries will start procuring rawhide in full swing on Saturday or Sunday and then the prices of the item will increase,鈥� he said.
Shaheen blamed that seasonal traders were collecting rawhide at low prices to make additional profits.
Md Abu Taleb, a seasonal rawhide trader in the city, however, blamed syndicate of tanners and wholesalers of rawhide for decreasing the prices of the rawhide of sacrificial animals across the country.
Taleb collected nearly 100 pieces of cowhide from the Mohammadpur area in the city on the day of Eid-ul-Azha with Tk 300-400 apiece and he sold it to traders at the wholesale market at Posta in the city for Tk聽400-500 apiece.
鈥業 have collected a few pieces of goatskin on Eid day and I donated those to a Madrasa as wholesale traders at Posta offered Tk聽10 apiece for the item,鈥� he said.
Taleb said that although this year the government increased the prices of rawhide, tannery owners and wholesale businesses were not complying with the prices and people were being deprived of the fair prices.
Manjurul Haque Sumon, a resident at Manirampur upazila in Jashore, said that he sanctified a castrated-goat and donated the skin to a madrassah as traders were unwilling to collect the item.
On June 3, state minister for commerce Ahsanul Islam Titu at a meeting with leaders of Bangladesh Finished Leather, Leathergoods and Footwear Exporters Association, Bangladesh Tanners Association and Bangladesh Hide and Skin Merchants Association at the Bangladesh secretariat had set the prices for the salted rawhide of cows at Tk 55-60 a square foot in the Dhaka city and Tk 50-55 a square foot outside the city.
In 2023, the prices for the salted rawhide of cows were at Tk 50-55 a square foot in the Dhaka city and Tk聽45-48 a square foot outside the city. The state minister also announced that the lowest prices of a piece of salted cowhide at Tk 1,200 in Dhaka and Tk聽1,000 outside Dhaka.
The meeting also set the prices of skin of castrated-goats at Tk 20-25 a square foot and the prices of goatskin at Tk 18-20 a聽square foot.
Bangladesh Tanners Association chairman Md Shaheen Ahmed said that as of Wednesday tannery owners procured nearly 8 lakh pieces of rawhide and the highest price was Tk聽900 apiece.
He said that tanners had set a target to procure 80 lakh pieces of rawhide聽this year.
Bangladesh Hide and Skin Merchants Association secretary general Tipu Sultan said that they were procuring cowhide between Tk聽600-Tk聽800 apiece.
