MEAT SECTOR NERVOUS OVER BJP VICTORY
May 10th, 2014
India beef and buffalo producers and exporters are bracing for additional controls after general elections exit polls predict a victory for the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) party led by Narendra Modi.“Fear is certainly there,” said Mohammed Saleem, managing director of ALM Group, a beef exporter based in Saharanpur (Uttar Pradesh), even though he admitted that it is highly unlikely that the new government would ban the slaughter of exports of buffalo meat.Mr Saleem said: “They need not put an official ban [to cause problems] - just ...
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