{"id":23673,"date":"2020-04-13T19:24:48","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T13:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/covid19-kashmiris-go-mutton-crazy\/"},"modified":"2020-04-13T19:24:48","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T13:54:48","slug":"covid19-kashmiris-go-mutton-crazy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=23673","title":{"rendered":"COVID19 | Kashmiris go mutton crazy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Kashmiris go mutton crazy, Mutton dealers say supply unavailable, \u2018Ask Govt to clear the air on unavailability of mutton\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Srinagar:<\/strong> People across Kashmir are fighting the battle against Covid-19 like other matured region across the globe, but one that continues to irritate them is shortage of mutton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While fight against the pandemic is on, mutton crazy people are running from pillar to post to find mutton.<br \/>Over the past few weeks, Kashmir is facing severe shortage of mutton due to the lack of supply that used to come from Punjab, Haryana and New Delhi.<br \/>\u201cAll mandis are closed due to the pandemic and we haven\u2019t received sufficient stock of sheep or goats since past three weeks,\u201d said Abdur Rehman Regoo, a mutton dealer in Pampore area of South Kashmir\u2019s Pulwama district.<br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said whatever sheep he had in stock were sold and his shed where he used to store sheep, is empty.<br \/>Same is the case in Srinagar, the summer capital city, where mutton dealers are facing serious shortage of stock that includes sheep and goat.<br \/>The dealers say that no supply reaches them and whatever they had in stock has been sold out. \u201cPeople knock our doors early morning asking for mutton. We have only one reply for them \u201cthere is no supply,\u201d General Secretary Wholesale Mutton Dealers Association Mehraj-ud- Din told Kashmir indepth News Service (KINS).<br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said that dozens of mutton dealers and meat sellers are facing huge losses. \u201cWe were yet to recover the losses inflicted on us by long shutdown due to roll back of Article 370. Now the pandemic has come again as our biggest enemy,\u201d he maintained.<br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Director Consumers Affairs and Public Distribution (CA&amp;PD) Bashir Ahmad said that pandemic has choked the supplies. \u201cIf things improve, supplies will reach Kashmir,\u201d he told KINS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kashmiri people are known voracious mutton eaters and there is not even a single house, that didn\u2019t cook mutton dish at least once a week.<br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many people however questioned that if poultry supply is reaching Kashmir, why is there mutton shortage.<br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The mutton dealers have, however, urged the government to direct the Animal and Sheep Husbandry department to activate local supplies for the mutton dealers. \u201cWe have number of Sheep farms across Kashmir, and if we get the supplies from them, we can overcome the shortage,\u201d Mehraj Din said.<br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He, however, said that recently many mutton shops were sealed, which indicates that government doesn\u2019t want mutton to be sold.<br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe also urge the government to clear the air, whether it doesn\u2019t want meat to be sold in Covid-19 crises. If it is so, we should be informed,\u201d he said. (KINS)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kashmiris go mutton crazy, Mutton dealers say supply unavailable, \u2018Ask Govt to clear the air on unavailability of mutton\u2019 Srinagar: People across Kashmir are fighting the battle against Covid-19 like other matured region across the globe, but one that continues to irritate them is shortage of mutton. 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