This story is from July 29, 2020

UP: Goat sellers and buyers surf online, explore options for qurbani

As the Covid crisis continues to hover, city residents have been looking at ways to buy a goat for sacrifice on Bakrid, falling on August 1.
UP: Goat sellers and buyers surf online, explore options for qurbani
A crowded goat market in Dubagga on Tuesday
LUCKNOW: As the Covid crisis continues to hover, city residents have been looking at ways to buy a goat for sacrifice on Bakrid, falling on August 1.
From ordering online through Pashu Bazar — a platform providing procuring of animals for four years, to physically visiting goat farms and asking the butchers in colony to arrange goats, they have been trying everything they could.

“In the last 15 days, 200 people have ordered online. We now also give the option of video calling so that customers can have a look at the animal. The customer can also opt for doorstep delivery of animal,” said chief operating officer Vinay Gautam.
The number of orders will go up to at least 400 as the festival draws closer, he added.
“We work with local farmers of 100 villages between Rasoolpur Sadaat and Mahmudabad. We’ve sold 14,000 goats in the four years,” he added.
“Every year I got five truckloads of 30-40 goats from Meerut and Bulandshahr, but this year I got just one and 12 goats are still unsold. Earnings have been hit,” said Aslam Ali of FF goat farm on Sultanpur road.
He also added that the pandemic has led to people downsizing the number and size of goats they purchased. “Where is the purchasing power in these times?” he remarked.
Mohammad Rizwan of Zam Zam goat farm in Sadar said, “I am getting around 10 calls a day through little online marketing initiatives that I took late, since I wasn’t prepared for this situation. This year most of those coming to buy goats from me are from the nearby localities only,” he said.
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