Hyderabad, July 2 -- Two consecutive lockdowns since last year have resulted in prices of sacrificial goats for Bakri Eid coming down this year. Most of the traders from the city said that the demand this year is scarce, due to which they have been forced to either decrease prices of the animals or to keep it to what it was last year.

Last year after the COVID-19 lockdown around this time, the goat mandis around Hyderabad were full of customersfor Bakri Eid. Ram, a trader from the Gudimalkapur goat mandi said that there would be a mad rush every year even weeks before Bakri Eid about goats. "But this year it's unusually calm, as the entire market is down," he lamented.

He added that he expects things to change after a few days, hopefull...