Present scenario of cattle hides price at some selected areas in Bangladesh

Abstract

The study was carried out to investigate the present market price of cattle hide and socio-economic status of slaughterer at three selected areas of Bangladesh. Data was gathered from one hundred and fifty randomly selected respondents from three areas where twenty household from each area who slaughtered cattle during Eid-al-Adha, twenty slaughterers from each area and thirty tannery from Hemayetpur, Savar through a structured questionnaire, from December, 2022 to April, 2023. During survey the considered parameters were the current cattle hide price at different level, respondent gender, age, literacy, family size, housing, source of income, monthly income and working experience. Result from the study revealed that all slaughterers were male and the average aged in Savar, Dhaka South City Corporation & Mymensingh City Corporation were 50.00, 37.16 & 43.61 respectively. For literacy rate of slaughterers it was found that about 36.11% had primary level education, 59.33% had secondary level education, 4.56% had higher secondary level education and no graduate were found. Their average family size were 5.75 and about 75.39% slaughterer lived on rent house and 24.61% on own house. About 94.40% slaughterer solely depend on meat processing but along with meat processing 5.60% were engaged with business. Average income of selected slaughterers were 40468.75 TK/month. Maximum slaughterer (42.00%) have been involved in this profession for 8-16 years. Major sources of hides were household (who slaughtered animal during Eid-al-Adha and for ceremonial purposes) slaughterhouse, meat processing industries etc. In household, slaughterer and tannery small size hides selling price were 245.00 and 295.00 Tk/piece respectively, for medium size 518.00 and 561.00 TK/piece respectively. In case of large size hide market price was 744.00 and 885.00 TK/piece respectively. In tannery, buying price of small, medium and large size hides were 443.00, 758.00 and 1515.00 TK/piece and 28.00, 32.00, 43.00 TK/sq. ft. respectively. The main reason for the rapid decline in the price of hide was low demand of hide and also flay defect.