Incomes fall as cow-related violence scuttles beef, leather exports: Report

India is the largest exporter of beef in the world, exporting buffalo meat worth $4 billion a year. However, since 2014, exports have mostly declined

India’s cow protection movement is hurting farmers and herders across religious and social lines, according to a new report by the international non-governmental organisation Human Rights Watch released February 19, 2019.

Since 2014, when the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) took over at the Centre, the growth of beef and leather exports, in which India plays a key role in the international market, has nearly come to a halt. This has affected India’s foreign currency reserves, the report states from an analysis of data from the commerce and industry ministry from 2010-11 to 2017-2018.

Between 2010