beef ban impact on trade & export

1. TRADE & EXPORT

2. How it harms animal markets, lives of people
 While the new move limits the scope for slaughterhouses
to acquire cattle,
 The Indian beef (buffalo) meat industry exports account
to over USD4 billion, reports .
 As per the US Department of Agriculture, India is ranked
second in the list of beef exporters in the world.
 According to ICRA(Credit Rating Agency of India), India
accounts for about 20 per cent of the world’s total beef
and buffalo meat volume.

3.  It causes huge dip in revenues from the animal trade
market.
 The supplying of raw hide to leather units account for
close to $5.5 billion.
 In terms of workforce, the ban on sale and purchase of
cattle also hits close to 22 million people, involved with
the meat industry
 According to data, exports dropped 2.4 per cent in the
first 10 months of 2016-17 year
 Impact on farmers and various industry’s

4.  The All India Meat and Livestock Exporters Association
(AIMLEA) claimed the government's decision will
eventually hit the farmers. In such a scenario, banning
such an important facet will not only affect the
functioning of slaughterhouses but will also affect India’s
GDP.

5. MEAT EXPORT IN INDIA

6. Impact due to yogi Adityanath
govt
Panic prevails in the Rs 50,000 crore meat
industry of Uttar Pradesh after a statewide
crackdown on illegal slaughterhouses and
mechanised abattoirs initiated by chief minister
Adityanath Yogi. India is one of the largest meat
producers with UP accounting for 60% of the
trade, but the state’s production has gone down
by an estimated 30-40% and exports are likely
to be badly hit.

7.  Official data shows that while 1,37,687 tonnes of beef
was exported in March 2017, the figure came down to
86,119 tonnes in April 2017 -- a drop of 51,568 tonnes in
just a month.
 The data put out by the Union ministry of Commerce and
Industry also suggests that the April export this year is
nearly 11,000 tonnes less than the corresponding period
last fiscal.