Bangladesh: rawhide traders already in crisis ahead of the festival of sacrifice

There are still two weeks to go before the Festival of Sacrifice (26–30 May). But rawhide traders in Chittagong — Bangladesh’s second-largest city, home to 6.5 million people — are already in crisis. Material quality is deteriorating sharply, sales are sluggish, revenues are collapsing and bank debts remain unpaid. For years, the Muslim religious festival,…