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economy Bones Adding to the Revenue Faizul Khan Tanim visits the city's Hazaribagh area to find a thriving business of cattle bones No matter how much stench there is,behind it all lurks a revenue earning source of immense potential. Business during Eid-ul-Azha soars to maximum as cattle organs and bones, being valuable items in addition to the usual hide of the animals slaughtered during the festival are produced and sold at fascinating prices. These extracts come in three types – bones, horns and gonads. The bones are broken into one and half inches sizes to be packed in sacks. Each sack of 75 Kilograms machine-crushed bones were sold at Tk 1400 this year compared to Tk 675 in 2005 and each year the rates are going up. One of the biggest entrepreneurs and traders Abdul Mannan Bhola Miah, who started this trade right after our Liberation War from the Hazaribagh area, spread over a land of eight Katha, said, “My business took firm shape around 1988 and ever sinc

Eid MOObarak Faizul Khan Tanim writes on how steak preparation has blended in to our Eastern appetite and bringing waves of joy on our tables Every Eid-Ul-Azha we are blessed with different types of meat cooked in variety ways to satiate our taste buds. And beef is definitely on the top of everyone's meat menu be it with bhuna khichuri, polau (rice dishes) or naan (Tandoori flat round bread). And these days, a lot of houses keep their meat to make good quality hunter beef and steaks. Steaks are very popular cuts of meat to throw on a grill or pan fry to perfection. Flavourful, tender, rich in meaty goodness, you would want to get the most out of your best beef portions. Now, good steak can be done very easily these days, thanks to the exclusive ranges and cuts of steaks available at the departmental stores and the biggest name in town to give you the right choices of cuts is Bengal Meat, the only export oriented meat processing company in Bangladesh. Syed Hassan Habib