In what could be considered a startling revelation, the two abattoirs — Al Kabeer Exports Private Limited and Frigerio Conserva Allana — in the district have been consuming large number of cattle population in Telangana. These two are among the few mechanised slaughter houses in the country with state-of- the-art technology.
If the same speed continues, we may witness these cattle only in the zoo! These two abattoirs are exporting meat and earning foreign exchange. According to highly placed sources, the Allana abattoir has slaughtered as many as 1,46,477 buffaloes, both male and female, till June 2017 and during July the figure stood at 59,301, making it a progressive total of 2,05,778 in 99 working days. This puts the figure of the animals being slaughtered every day at Allana as 2,078, according to documents available with The Hindu . In the case of Al Kabeer, the number of buffaloes slaughtered till June stood at 22,322 and in the month of July it was 11,060, which made a combined total of 33,382 in 96 working days. This amounts to slaughtering of as many as 347 animals a day. If the figures of both Allana and Al Kabeer were put together, the total number of buffaloes slaughtered from April to July stood at 2,39,158.
Coming to sheep, as many as 76,584 sheep were butchered in the same period at Al Kabeer. The area of procurement of animals is spreads across Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Karantaka. However, more focus is on local availability of animals in TS and A.P. “We know a large number of buffaloes being slaughtered here may result in fall in milk production. But we are helpless as the permission is being accorded by the governments,” said an officer seeking anonymity.
