Farmers will be able to sell and purchase cattle online

Hyderabad, June 13: Soon, farmers in the state will be able to sell and purchase cattle online, The Telangana govt launched the website to facilitate the buying and selling of cattle online, they launched here on Monday.

The website is as follows pashubazar.telangana.gov.in

The state said that the website would save the farmer's transportation costs, as they need not keep taking them to markets.

According to the report that Special Chief Secretary, Animal Husbandry, Suresh Chanda launched the website, which was developed with National Informatics Centre's (NIC) support.

The report also quoted Animal Husbandry assistant director V Jagannatha Chary as saying that the new cattle rules issued by the Central government would be applicable to the online sale of the animals too.

"Taking animals physically to weekly markets involves expenditure on travel, care of animal and day long loss of wages/work for the farmer. Further, if the animal could not be sold in a weekly market, it has to again travel back home. This platform will eliminate all that and create wide publicity for a sale of his animals so that farmer gets the better price," a message on the website reads.

The website also mentions that the limit for a number of animals that can be registered for sale at one time is five.

Each registration on the website will only be valid for 30 days, following which it will be removed automatically.

The farmers have the option of selling buffaloes, bullocks, cows, dogs, goats, and sheep.

Last month the Central government proposed to start a unique identity system for cattle, in the Supreme Court.

The Centre said that the Unique Identification Number will consist of all the records of identification details such as age, breed, sex, lactation, height, body, colour, horn type, tail switch, special mark etc.

The Centre claimed that the identification numbers would help track cows and prevent inter-state and inter-country smuggling.