Customers bleat on high prices

LAHORE - Owing to more than 80 per cent increase in the prices of sacrificial animals, all the sale points are yet to witness traditional rush of customers usually observed few days before Eidul Azha. Though hundreds of goat, sheep, cows and camels have been brought into the City but flow of sacrificial animals has failed to attract a reasonable crowd of customers so far. Price of an average goat having weight around 20 kg to 25 kg varies from Rs 18,000 to Rs 22,000 against Rs 10,000 to Rs 12,000 the last year. A cow of 40 to 60 kg is costing Rs 40,000 to Rs 55,000 while a cow of the same weight was sold out from Rs 35,000 to 45,000 the last year. Price of an average camel is Rs 50,000 to Rs 70,000. Traders are demanding these prices when only six days have been left in Eid. However, the market trend manifests that surge in the prices may go higher.