'Starving Bangladesh of beef' would cost India $5 Billion

[Sugarcane]

India should provide condoms to bulls, otherwise cow family will eat all food of Indians

 

[damiendehorn]

This is a great plan, Bangladesh should fully support it. Win win for both countries.

A. Bangladesh has a huge trade deficit with india, over $6bn. Bangladesh has to pay that in hard currencies it earns from exports to other countries. By implementing this, Bangladesh will save over $1bn in foreign exchange each year.
B. Short term price rise will stimulate the expansion of the local dairy industry, a eventual switch to intensive industrial farming methods and away from cottage industry.
C. Bangladesh will in time expand the leather industry, and gain a large chunk of the $220bn market (remove a potential competitor, speacially if Bangladesh can encourage India to implement a strict adhearance to these policies).

Well done minister, the BJP is at last thinking in the right direction.

 

[ArsalanKhan21]

5 billions are nothing in front of innocent animals lives.

Good point ! What about innocent lives of chickens, goats, sheep, fish, etc whose meat Indian continue eat but only cow seem to have legal protection ? What about protecting all animals innocent lives ? India must stop fishing too and be only vegetarians.

 

[dray]

Even the smuggling of drugs and humans beings can benefit the economy. No?

Beef is not drug, and cattle are not humans.

But smuggling should stop, the trade should happen legally. In fact it makes more sense to export the processed meat than to export the raw materials, i.e. the live cattle.

India is no. 1 in the world in beef export, but these are mostly lower priced buffalo meat, Bangladesh exports higher priced beef by using our bulls and bullocks. We also buy leather from them that comes from our smuggled cattle.

The smuggling of bulls and bullocks is flourishing because of the illogical troubles in India regarding its slaughter, and that's why we don't face this smuggling issue with buffalos.

Btw, contrary to popular beliefs, most of the smuggled cattle are bulls and bullocks, old cows are in low demand because of poor quality of beef, some milk giving cows go there, but only for the dairy industry, they are too costly to slaughter. These high quality cows are smuggled to countries as far as Malaysia also.

Unfortunately those who cry for the lives of the cattle don't own them, and those who own; they prefer to see the economics and logic than hollow sentiments. Anybody willing to save the lives of the poor cattle should buy the cattle themselves at market price and feed them, why other poor 'humans' should suffer for their sentiments?

Let's see how many true urban cattle lovers are actually there when it comes to money.

Good point ! What about innocent lives of chickens, goats, sheep, fish, etc whose meat Indian continue eat but only cow seem to have legal protection ? What about protecting all animals innocent lives ? India must stop fishing too and be only vegetarians.

And plants are not living beings? Plants give us more than cattle!

 

[The BrOkEn HeArT]

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Good point ! What about innocent lives of chickens, goats, sheep, fish, etc whose meat Indian continue eat but only cow seem to have legal protection ? What about protecting all animals innocent lives ? India must stop fishing too and be only vegetarians.

I agreed . The world should be vegetarian. No matter how much money we will lose. At least we can save many innocent lives. Humans are becoming blind for money and stomach.

 

[Ragnar]

I love Beef dry fry.. Kerala style. The best I tasted was in Trivandrum at a hotel near the secretariat. BDF with freshly made Appam and chicken curry. Best meal ever.

 

[United]

Indians should immediately stop eating fish and plants as they are also living things!!!

India being worlds largest exporter of beef.....wonder how that's gonna work economically.

PS. just had juicy indian beaf steaks......Imported fresh from India.

 

[khair_ctg]

As if stopping beef supply from india will stop Bangladeshis from eating beef. All it will mean will be an short term price rise and expansion of the local dairy industry until they fill the supply shortfall, with companies like Bengal Meat making the money that goes to the indian suppliers. In the end its all about supply and demand.....

you mean instead the expansion of local meat industry?

so let's assume India starts controlling its cows from crossing over to BD as Hindus consider cow as God. the beef price will rise, which is unfortunate but there will be alternatives from the meat industry of local cows, goat and sheep, and fowl. so yes in the long run the price hike may not exist or it would not cause a hike in meat expenditure. and the local meat and dairy industry has to grow a lot from what it is now anyways, regardless of what India's policy is.

 

[SarthakGanguly]

Beef is not drug, and cattle are not humans.

But smuggling should stop, the trade should happen legally. In fact it makes more sense to export the processed meat than to export the raw materials, i.e. the live cattle.

It's legal I guess in Bengal...is it not?
If so, it can be started on a grand scale there. Startups can get started right away. Tie up with states all over India for the raw material, process and export. This will be beneficial since many states have and many more will ban cow slaughter entirely.

I can suggest a basic blueprint -
i. Collect people of the local areas and make committees.

ii. Train them to slash the throats of the cattle. It is not an easy job. The existing butchers will not be enough to meet the demand. The secular people of Bengal should volunteer to engage in reviving the economy. One cannot expect a single community to do all that, all the time.

iii. Considering the market, you may have to keep the halal certifications in mind as well. I might recommend that this be a part of the training. An average Hindu will make a mess of it. He needs to be rigorously trained to do so. Otherwise machines can be purchased for doing that automatically. It will boost the manufacturing industry there as well - especially those building stainless steel blades.

iv. Considering the general nationwide consensus and popularity of NOT having beef, the children in Bengal should also be initiated to the consumption of beef including cow meat from a tender age, lest they fall prey to the communal desires of the rest of the Indians. There can be a course on the advantages and benefits of beef over and above all other meat and even on other non meat protein substitutes, including cheaper ones. This will maximize the utilization of stray and older cattle in the State including those that are kept uselessly in temple gaushalays.

I hope you will look seriously into this matter and consider the points as mentioned without dismissing them as sarcasm of a demented sadist fascist.

 

[bongbang]

Without beef Bangladeshis will have even higher life expectancy. Will have less medical cost. For higher treatment Indian Hospitals will loose patients from BD. Overall there will be less high pressure, stroke, heart disease, type2 diabetes etc. Faida faida for BD

ii. Train them to slash the throats of the cattle. It is not an easy job. The existing butchers will not be enough to meet the demand. The secular people of Bengal should volunteer to engage in reviving the economy. One cannot expect a single community to do all that, all the time.

It should be mendatory in Indian Army to find out strong heart people. Every year lots of weak heart people in BD die of heart attack on sight of Qurabni Eid

 

[SarthakGanguly]

Without beef Bangladeshis will have even higher life expectancy. Will have less medical cost. For higher treatment Indian Hospitals will loose patients from BD. Overall there will be less high pressure, stroke, heart disease, type2 diabetes etc. Faida faida for BD



It should be mendatory in Indian Army to find out strong heart people. Every year lots of weak heart people in BD die of heart attack on sight of Qurabni Eid

Mauka mauka eh?

 

[Dragon Ball]

Please india stop all export of cows to Bangladesh now. This will raise the price of beef in Bangladesh, and stimulate the growth of the dairy/meat industry in Bangladesh. A win win situation for both nations, india can live knowing they are saving cows from slaughter, and Bangladesh can build their meat industry and save $billions from going into the indian economy.

65% of land in Bangaldesh is degraded land and you guys cannot grow enough food for yourself and you are speaking about raising feeds for cattle industry. Great going.

Good point ! What about innocent lives of chickens, goats, sheep, fish, etc whose meat Indian continue eat but only cow seem to have legal protection ? What about protecting all animals innocent lives ? India must stop fishing too and be only vegetarians.

We do not get all we wish for in life, so we need to pick and choose. So while banning all killings is an ideal everyone should strive for, at this moment in time a small step of banning cow slaughter is the step in that direction.

 

[damiendehorn]

65% of land in Bangaldesh is degraded land and you guys cannot grow enough food for yourself and you are speaking about raising feeds for cattle industry. Great going.
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You really are a dumb as* aren't you? Bangladesh has the worlds largest arable land mass as a percentage, and is a net exporter of food, with surplus production for the last decade....LOL.

Arable land (% of land area) | Data | Table

Oh an for your information, we actually do have a large cattle industry. The cattle we import from india is just slaughtered, processed and exported to the Gulf, or consumed during eid.

 

[Dragon Ball]

You really are a dumb as* aren't you? Bangladesh has the worlds largest arable land mass as a percentage, and is a net exporter of food, with surplus production for the last decade....LOL.

Arable land (% of land area) | Data | Table

Oh an for your information, we actually do have a large cattle industry. The cattle we import from india is just slaughtered, processed and exported to the Gulf, or consumed during eid.

Agriculture in Bangladesh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

By comparison, wheat output in 2005-2006 was 9 million metric tons.[5] Population pressure continues to place a severe burden on productive capacity, creating a food deficit, especially of wheat.[5] Foreign assistance and commercial imports fill the gap.[5]Underemployment remains a serious problem, and a growing concern for Bangladesh's agricultural sector.

Wheat also accounts for the great bulk of imported food grains, exceeding 1 million tons annually and going higher than 1.8 million tons in FY 1984, FY 1985, and FY 1987. The great bulk of the imported wheat is financed under aid programs of the United States, the European Economic Community, and the World Food Programme.

Land Degradation in Pakistan: A Serious Threat to Environments and Economic Sustainability - Zia-ul-Hassan Shah and Muhammad Arshad

According to a pioneering study on the subject, the costs of land degradation in South Asian countries (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Iran, Afghanistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bhutan) is at least US$ 10 billion annually. This is approximately 2% of the region’s GDP which is equal to 7% of the value of its agricultural output.

The breakdown of losses, according to types of land degradation, are: water erosion US$ 5.4 billion; wind erosion US$ 1.8 billion; fertility decline US$ 0.6-1.2 billion; waterlogging US$ 0.5 billion and salinisation US$ 1.5 billion.

The study found that altogether 140 million hectares, which is equal to 43% of the region’s total agricultural land, suffered from one or the other form of land degradation. Of this, 31 million hectares were strongly degraded and 63 million hectares moderately degraded. The worst country affected was Iran, with 94% of agricultural land degraded, followed by Bangladesh (75%), Pakistan (61%), Sri Lanka (44%), Afghanistan (33%), Nepal (26%), India (25%) and Bhutan (10%).

Who is dumbass now?

 

[damiendehorn]

Agriculture in Bangladesh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

By comparison, wheat output in 2005-2006 was 9 million metric tons.[5] Population pressure continues to place a severe burden on productive capacity, creating a food deficit, especially of wheat.[5] Foreign assistance and commercial imports fill the gap.[5]Underemployment remains a serious problem, and a growing concern for Bangladesh's agricultural sector.

Wheat also accounts for the great bulk of imported food grains, exceeding 1 million tons annually and going higher than 1.8 million tons in FY 1984, FY 1985, and FY 1987. The great bulk of the imported wheat is financed under aid programs of the United States, the European Economic Community, and the World Food Programme.

Land Degradation in Pakistan: A Serious Threat to Environments and Economic Sustainability - Zia-ul-Hassan Shah and Muhammad Arshad

According to a pioneering study on the subject, the costs of land degradation in South Asian countries (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Iran, Afghanistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bhutan) is at least US$ 10 billion annually. This is approximately 2% of the region’s GDP which is equal to 7% of the value of its agricultural output.

The breakdown of losses, according to types of land degradation, are: water erosion US$ 5.4 billion; wind erosion US$ 1.8 billion; fertility decline US$ 0.6-1.2 billion; waterlogging US$ 0.5 billion and salinisation US$ 1.5 billion.

The study found that altogether 140 million hectares, which is equal to 43% of the region’s total agricultural land, suffered from one or the other form of land degradation. Of this, 31 million hectares were strongly degraded and 63 million hectares moderately degraded. The worst country affected was Iran, with 94% of agricultural land degraded, followed by Bangladesh (75%), Pakistan (61%), Sri Lanka (44%), Afghanistan (33%), Nepal (26%), India (25%) and Bhutan (10%).

Who is dumbass now?

Obviously YOU ARE! Just copy and pasting a small excerpt from a Wikipedia article dated a decade ago. Is that all you could find? What you think people are so dumb as you as not to read the whole article?

Bangladesh isn't even a primarily wheat consuming nation, its a rice consumer and net exporter.

Here read a more up to date information dumb ***......

Record production and growth
2014 was a very good year for Bangladesh in terms of its agricultural output and ensuring people’s food security. Various steps taken by the government and favourable weather conditions resulted in record production of major crops and better prices for farmers. The agriculture and service sectors saw 3.35% and 5.58% growth in 2014, up from 2.4% and 5.5% respectively in 2013. Exports of agro-based products also saw a 15% growth in 2014, with earnings worth US$ 615 million. Major crops like boro, wheat, jute, potato, ginger and summer vegetables witnessed record production. Besides crops, poultry and fisheries also saw record growth with production increasing at all time highs for both. Farmers received higher prices for their produce in 2014 compared to 2013.

According to data by the Department of Agricultural Marketing (DAM), prices of major crops including Boro and Aus crops, onion, wheat, maize, jute, ginger, mustard seed and summer vegetables in 2014 were 10-15% higher compared to that in 2013. Boro sold at TK 680-800 per maund (40 kgs) in the May-June period. Farmers got TK 800-1000 per kg for onion, TK 800-900 for wheat, TK 900-1200 for jute (desi), TK 1350 for jute (tossa), TK 680-720 for Aus paddy, TK 1600-1800 for ginger etc. Production of Boro crop hit record high at 18.95 million tonnes while wheat output rose to a 11 year high at 1.302 million tonnes. Potato output was also set at a record high 8.95 million tonnes, summer vegetable production 4.0 million tonnes, jute production at 7.0 million bales, online the highest at 1.65 million tonnes and ginger at a three year record high of 72,000 tonnes.

According to Department of Fisheries (DoF), fish production reached the highest ever 3.55 million tonnes in 2014. Poultry sector production increased by nearly 15% in 2014 compared to 2013, as per data of Bangladesh Poultry Industries Coordination Committee. Better prices of crops helped boost both farm and non-farm sectors in rural areas. With the rise in purchasing power of farmers, agro-processing industries, farm equipment and inputs, housing and construction materials, mobile and electronics, clothing and private clinics have seen a boom in the outgoing year.

Exporting rice
For the first time since independence, Bangladesh became a rice exporting nation in 2014. Bangladesh has already exported 50,000 tonnes of rice to Sri Lanka. After Sri Lanka, Bangladesh is now going to export rice to India following bumper production and adequate stocks at home. India has proposed to import 30,000-40,000 tonnes of rice from Bangladesh for its north-eastern states like Tripura. India will send a delegation soon to Bangladesh to finalise the matter.

Fourth largest fish producer
According to 2014 report of the UN's Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO), Bangladesh presently stands fourth in producing sweet water fish. In 2013/14, Bangladesh government disbursed US$ 179.5 million as agricultural loans to fish farmers. From 2004 till 2014, Bangladesh's fish production increased by 53%. According to Bangladesh Statistics Bureau (BBS)'s latest economic census says that in the 2013-14 fiscal year, the country produced approximately 3.46 million tonnes of fish, of which about 2 million tonnes were farmed. With the protection of hilsa fries and other initiatives, production of the country's most popular fish hilsa has gone up from 52,000 tonnes to 350,000 tonnes.

With prices of fish remaining within the reach of the common people, there has been a 100% increased in per head consumption of fish over the past 10 years. Fish exports have gone up by 135%. In the 2013-14 fiscal Bangladesh's export earnings from frozen fish went up by 17.35% to US$ 532.1 million. FAO predicts Bangladesh will be the first of the four countries to achieve massive success in fish production by the year 2022. This is followed by Thailand, India and China. According to FAO, Bangladesh stands 25th in global standing for catching sea fish. However, after settlement of the maritime boundary issue with Myanmar and India, catching fish from the Bay of Bengal is likely to increase manifold.

Bangladesh became self reliant on food production. Gone are the days of Monga (seasonal and localised famine).On the international stage, Bangladesh is now the fourth highest paddy producing country. Persistent bumper yield of rice stopped the country from imported rice in the last five year. Hector wise production of rice wheat and maize has crossed the global average growth. Bangladesh is now an example for multiple cropping in a single land.The country stands well above its annual food grain consumption requirement of less than 30 milliontonnes. With an annual growth rate of 40.5 milliontonnes, the country crossed the global average growth.

Successful policies of 2009-13 carried on to 2014
Immediately after assuming power in 2009, the agriculture friendly Awami League government reduced the price of non-urea fertilizers to a half and on three occasions lowered its price from 70% to 78%. The genome sequence of local and toshua jute along with harmful fungus for more than five hundred crops were unfolded. High-yielding and adverse weather sustainable 145 new varieties of crops were invented. Zinc enriched rice BRRI 62 was introduced. 9.5 million farmers opened bank accounts with only TK 10 deposit. They received various financial helps through these accounts.

In a landmark feat, the present government has revamped the entire fertilizer distribution chain to ensure easy distribution to the farmers. Around 34 thousand retail fertilizer distributors were appointed. At least one distributor is available at every upazila level. Taking a giant leap forward, the government embarked on a project to provide subsidy to mechanized the farming system. Due to subsidy, process of seeds, irrigation and fertilizers kept within an affordable prize. In 2013-14, Agricultural Ministry has allocated US$ 167 million to speed up 81 development projects. A whopping US$1.54 billion was disbursed for the promotion of agriculture. Bangladesh has been a success story in developing rice verities that can offset adverse impact of climate change. To this end, as many as 81 high yield rice verities have been engineered. Of them, two are drought tolerant verities, nine can fight slat and four are flood tolerant. Bangladeshi researchers developed the first ever zinc enriched rice variety.

Around 14.5 million farmers were given agricultural input assistance cards. Government food storage capacity increased from 1.4 million to 1.9 million metric tones. To ensure food availability for the low income people, the government distributed more than 1.5 million metric tonnes of food grains under the OMS programme in five years. Additionally, 3,48,135 metric tonnes food grains were distributed to 7.7 million easy card holder families and other 71,236 metric tonnes were distributed at a low price to 4th class employees and village police. More than 5.4 million metric tonnes of food grains were distributed under various social safety net programmes like food for work, VGF and VGD.

In 2014, for meeting the demand of urea fertilizer in the country, 92% work on the project for construction of ShahjalalFertiizer factory, having a capacity of 580 thousand metric tonnes, has been completed. The prevalence of the goiter disease has been brought down to 1.60% through implementation of the iodized salt project. Bangladesh Accreditation Board had been granted full membership of the Asia Pacific Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (APLAC).

Food grain production during 2014 has risen to more than 3.5 million metric tonnnes. A total of 976,000 metric tonnes of rice and 811,000 metric tonnes of wheat have been distributed under the public food distribution programme. The storage capacity of government warehouses has been raised to 1.95 million metric tonnes. US$ 52.7 million were spent as incentives and rehabilitation expenses for compensating losses to farmers incurred during various natural disasters.

Bangladesh has been ranked 57th in 2014 Global Hunger Index (GHI), showing improvement in hunger level along with nine other countries. According to the index, the country reduced hunger more significantly than any other South Asian countries. Over the last year, the production of rice and wheat has increased by 3 percent. In line with the National Agriculture Policy, the National Agriculture Extension Policy-2014 and National Micro-Irrigation Policy-2014 were formulated. The Awami League led government has set up first ever call centers aiming to make the cultivation related information easily accessible to the farmers. From any corner of the country, anyone can dial 16123 to get information related to agriculture round the clock.