India's endangered bulls

Farmers suffer great economic loss wherever India's legislators ban or restrict the slaughter and sale of meat or beef products

Where have all the bullocks gone? It should have been a big story but the Indian media does not seem to have noticed. Today, if you travel through any of India’s prosperous districts, you will very seldom see a bullock cart or a bull ploughing a field and no bulls circle any Persian wheel any longer. Over the past few decades, they have nearly all been replaced by tractors, trucks or pump sets. A recent report from the Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering, Bhopal shows that the share of draught animals for farm power on Indian farms declined from 44