The indefinite postponement of Bargur cattle exhibition by the State Government has disappointed the rearers.
They were looking forward to the event with enthusiasm as the prize money was doubled for the best breeders by the Animal Husbandry Department, owing to the more than expected patronage when the exhibition was conducted for the first time last year.
Supposed to have been conducted on March 29, the exhibition had to be postponed in view of the national mourning in honour of Singapore’s founding father late Lee Kuan Yew.
Farmers say there are complexities involved in postponing the exhibition indefinitely. For, within a month from now, the rearers would get away from their homes with the cattle to areas bordering Karnataka where they find it relatively easier to graze the cows in forest land, says E.N. Sivasenapathy, president of Bargur Hill Cattle Breeders’ Association. Once they take the cattle to the Madeswara Hills area on the Karnataka side, the rearers will return only after 10 months. Though penning is not officially permitted in Karnataka, the rearers are not penalised there as in Tamil Nadu. The rearers want the annual exhibition conducted at the earliest.
Many farmers will take the cattle away to other places for grazing
They may return only after 10 months
