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Demand up in Kurdistan Region for Eid animal sacrifices

10-08-2019

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Rudaw

Every year leading up to the Eid Al-Adha Islamic holiday, Muslims around the world, including those in the Kurdistan Region, sacrifice livestock. In Erbil’s animal market, hundreds of buyers and sellers are making deals beside packs of sheep, cattle, and goats.

According to those working in the market, animals from Syria, Iran, Georgia, India and other places are imported. The buyers, who see the week before Eid as an opportunity to sell their animals, have been preparing.

The improved economic situation of the Kurdistan Region after several years of a downturn has bustled the livestock market and decreased the price of one kilo of meat before butchering to 3,500 Iraqi dinars, according to sellers.

Ahmed Weli, who sells sheep at the giant market, told Rudaw English that compared to last year "our business is doing better, though not at its best as it was the case in 2011, 2012 an 2013."

Weli said the price of one kilo of live sheep ranges from 3200 to 3600 dinars.

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Photos: Rudaw / Mohammed Shwani