~BR RESEARCH [Sobia Saleem]

With every passing day, the zeal and zest of Eid-ul-Azha is gaining impetus. On one hand, women are actively buying recipe books, spices and other ingredients for preparing the tantalizing dishes, the teenagers are excitingly chatting about the attributes of the animals and purchasing knick-knacks for beautifying their animals, while the bread earners are looking for better and affordable deals to buy animals and perform this religious ritual on the face of smutty law and order situation and spiraling prices.

Clued-up with informed sources, over 300,000 cows and 200,000 goats are expected to make their ways to Karachi this year for Eid-ul-Azha; yet only small numbers have turned up so far. However, advertisements of different cattle farms and Mandis already dot the streets of Karachi.

Animal vendors have also started appearing in the city especially in the busy areas like Saddar and Nazimabad. Moreover, mosques have also started offering portions in collective sacrifices, with prices ranging from Rs6000 to Rs12000 per share.

Over the years, the trend of online buying and selling of sacrificial animals has also emerged incredibly with escalating number of orders being placed each year. The online cattle markets provide photos, videos, and other descriptions including the type and price of animals, thus facilitating people in making well-informed decisions. This alternative also particularly entices Pakistanis residing overseas whereby they can perform the sacrificial custom smoothly and get the meat delivered to their loved ones or to a welfare organisation of their choice.

Hasnain Raza of Qurbanionline told BRR that the e-qurbani platforms develop a centralized reservoir that properly channelise assets generated from the sacrifice (meat, hides and by products), thus making a sanguine difference in the economy.

He highlighted that with the growing security concerns in the country, rising food inflation, high animal haulage, oversee and slaughter charges, people are tremendously inclined towards the alternative of online qurbani whereby they can select the animals, book their orders and make payments online and the orders will be executed and delivered to the given address within the three days of Eid-ul-Azha without any hassle.

Besides, since the online farms are engaged in volume-based business, the marginal cost per animal plunges and they are able to offer competitive prices.

Last year, the major reason that was quoted by vendors for exorbitant animal prices was the devastation caused by the floods. This year, however, prices have managed to soar without a natural calamity. This time around, animal vendors say the bills ratcheted up are thanks to high costs of transportation and staging at the animal markets set up in and around the city.

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You know Eid-ul-Azha is just around the corner when you see a cow or a goat in every street with the children feeding them or taking them for a walk, when their smell fills your nostrils every time you take a trip to the market thanks to the mandis springing up everywhere and when you can’t sleep at night because of the neighbor’s goat which won’t shut up..

Yes. It is that time of the year.

If you are one of those people who dreads going ‘bakra shopping’; from the inspection of whether the goat’s teeth are real or not to bargaining with the owner for hours to bringing the animal home in your precious car, you don’t need to worry.

Amazingly, there’s another option. You can buy your bakra online! Yes, digital media is all in to join $3 billion market where more than 10 million animals are sacrificed during Eid-ul-Adha. There are several websites that offer the service of getting you a Bakra through just few clicks while being at home.

We have compiled a list of places where you can buy your bakra online:

Qurbani Online BakraOnline BUYBAKRAFORQURANI

If you are looking for an organized website to buy an animal, Qurbani Online is the perfect place.

You choose the animal, breed and weight your desire and find out how much it costs. This way you can also browse through the animals until you find one according to your budget.

It was launched in 2006 and so was the first online Qurbani service. You can purchase your animal from anywhere in the world! You can get the animal delivered to your home or request the site to sacrifice for you and send you the meat. The site even has related articles and press releases!

source: LARAIB QURESHI ~ propakistani 

By – RIDA SADIQ – Brand Synario

With only 17 days to go (yes, we are counting) to the fun-filled Eid-ul-Azha 2015, thousands of sacrificial animals are being brought in to Karachi Super Highway market to set up Asia’s largest cattle market.

While it has become much easier for the traders to bring in their animal stocks, due to reduced extortion cases and decreased petroleum prices, into the provincial capital, they still predict the lack of sales and reduced profit margins this season.

The thriving online marketers are more hopeful for a better sales figure this year with the premier online Qurbani service,QurbaniOnline.com expecting to sell 100,000 animals this Eid.

The prices at the www.QurbaniOnline.com range from USD 235 for a 25 kg goat to USD 415 for a 45 kg goat and USD 850 for a USD 120/share bull to USD 885 for a USD 125/share cow.

On the other hand, the welfare alms have set rates at PKR 15,000 to PKR 20,000 for goats and PKR 49,000 to PKR 72,000 for calves and cows, depending on where the sacrifice would take place and the weight and size of the animal.

While these quoted prices are expected to remain fixed, the prices in the animal markets will continue to rise as the days go by.

The main animals market at the superhighway, Karachi for now features mostly the high-end “showstopper” cows and bulls, purely for the elite class to buy and others to enjoy their “ramp walk” for entertainment. These animals are priced from PKR 250,000 to a whopping PKR 1,000,000. 

See some of the images from Superhighway market:

Amongst these big shot tents, are smaller groups of affordable goats and cows, ranging from PKR 25,000 to PKR 35,000 and PKR 70,000 to PKR 100,000 respectively. While these are the prices quoted by the animal traders, customers have reported that sellers are willing to bargain and bring prices down for serious buyers.

The ban on setting up temporary animal markets anywhere the traders wish to and the general rise in inflation has kept the sales to a bare minimum so far.

Customers, visiting the few main markets set up, are window shoppers only, with most complaining that the costs of taking care of the animals for another 2 weeks is not affordable for them and hence, are pushing purchases till the coming weeks.

[vc_row full_width=”” parallax=”” parallax_image=””][vc_column width=”5/6″][vc_column_text css_animation=”bottom-to-top”]BR RESEARCH
(November 15, 2010) : Its that time of the year when the four-legged have taken control of several peoples lives and thoughts. Yes, its the time of the festive Islamic occasion of Eid-ul-Azha.

While many know the spiritual benefits of sacrifice, the economic benefits of this holy occasion are also countless.

Conservative estimates place the total number of animals, both small and large, slaughtered in Pakistan above 5 million, and the total value of these animals hovers around Rs100 billion, assuming 25 percent of the households practice sacrificial rites this year. The resulting trade and sacrifices of livestock, with the said injection of money into the economy, also spills over the gains into various sectors.

According to a study conducted by the Institute of Management Sciences, Peshawar, while the average marginal propensity to consume (MPC) in Pakistan averages around 0.68 for every rupee, the sales proceeds of sacrificial animals had an MPC of 1.

This means that for an increase of Rs1 in income from sale of animals (mainly for the rural livestock raisers), consumption increases by Rs1. This may be directed at various activities from purchases of electronic gadgets and other supplies to health and education expenditures.

The resulting consumption helps generate demand in both the manufacturing and services sectors of the economy. And since the benefits accrue to the rural cattle farmer, poverty alleviation in the relatively impoverished rural sector of the economy is another gain.

According to David Doolan, Senior FAO Officer, in charge of FAO programmes in Pakistan, “livestock in this country are the poor peoples mobile ATM.”

The animal skin and slaughtering services are also another revenue-generating source with their total value estimated at around Rs7 billion. These help provide the impetus to butchering services, as well as to the leather industry of the country.

On a more micro level, prices of animals have gone up by 15-20 percent this year over the previous year, according to sources in the industry.

While the average price of larger animals have risen from roughly Rs34,000 last year to Rs45,000 this year, the average price of small animals have soared from around Rs11,000 to Rs15,000, according to Latif Qureshi, General Secretary of the Karachi Livestock Traders Welfare Association.

Industry sources have cited the loss of animals after the floods as creating a supply-side shortage that caused the buoyancy in prices.

The prices of animals include the cost of transportation and maintenance; however, money taken from livestock sellers in the name of water tax, maintenance and shelter tax, electricity tax, etc augment prices further.

“We pay a lump sum of Rs700 per animal to the government for the maintenance and shelter of the sacrificial animals, and yet we are exploited for these other trivial expenses, bloating our costs further,” said Latif .

New trends observed in the market this year include a greater propensity towards collective or institutional sacrifices as individual sacrifices have become dearer for the purchasers.

In addition, a development in online sacrificial services has also established ground. “Online sacrificial services are gaining popularity amongst Muslims both in the country and abroad. The business has gained credibility over the years due to standard prices, convenience and greater awareness,” said Iftikhar Hasan, pioneer of Qurbani Online, an online portal for the sale of sacrificial animals.

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