Traders in Bangladesh dump hides after Eid al-Adha
Traders in Bangladesh have spoken to local media about dumping hides and skins following the 2020 Eid al-Adha festival because selling them to wholesalers and tanners was unviable.
The government set official prices for the hides and skins of animals sacrificed during the festival. Cow hides were to cost just 50-60 cents per square-foot in the capital, Dhaka, and 40-50 cents per square-foot in the rest of the country.
For goatskins, the price was set at around 20 cents per square-foot.
Traders complained that the cost of collecting the material was more expensive than the prices offered by wholesalers. For their part, wholesalers blamed tanners, saying they had unsuccessfully lobbied government to set the prices even lower.
Media reports quoted the Bangladesh Tanners’ Association as saying its members always paid the prices stipulated by the government.
There were reports of hides being buried in Sylhet in the north-east and of material being dumped in a river near Cumilla.
