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Coronavirus lockdown curbs buffalo meat exports, hitting Ramzan supplies; not considered essential item, say exporters
FirstpostThe spread of coronavirus pandemic has slashed shipments of Indian buffalo meat, driving prices higher and hitting sales. Kuala Lumpur/Mumbai: For more than a decade Kuala Lumpur street vendor Abu Zahrim Ismail has seen brisk sales of _daging denden_g, a spicy buffalo meat jerky, during the Muslim holy month of Ramzan. India typically sells more than 100,000 tonnes of buffalo meat every month, but in March exports dropped to around 40,000 tonnes, according to two exporters. “As of now all the exporters are trying to move their current stocks that they are holding.” Wholesale prices of frozen buffalo meat in Malaysia have climbed 15 percent-20 percent from a year ago this month during the Ramadan festival, which usually accounts for up to 20 percent of the country’s annual consumption as families gather to break fast. “Typically, Malaysians would consume about 350 containers of buffalo meat a month from India, now it has fallen to half,” said one importer based in Kuala Lumpur.
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