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Crocodile eggs up for sales on Bangladesh local market
With the growing global market for crocodile products, the country’s lone crocodile farm is now offering such products in the local market on a limited scale alongside its exports abroad.
The Reptiles Farm Ltd now offers crocodile eggs, teeth, and live crocodiles for the local market on a limited scale through online marketing.
The crocodile products were put in one of the online portals, celbazaar.com, on Saturday as the company put the offer, ‘The country’s only commercial crocodile farm registered with CITES is making available a small quantity of crocodile eggs. You can eat these eggs like any other eggs; you can make Moghlai Parata or even Pizza if you want.’ The farm also assured to provide recipes on request.
Most of the viewers of the online advertisement were curious about such products, especially the eggs, and many left lamenting comments for the high price.
The farm is offering crocodile eggs at Tk 1,200 a piece, crocodile tooth at Tk 50,000 a piece and baby crocodile at Tk 1,50,000.
The farm’s managing director, Mushtaque Ahmed, told New Age that he received an overwhelming response and most of them were curious about eggs as it was the cheapest item.
Many of them also inquired about crocodile teeth and few wanted to know how they would keep a crocodile as a pet, Mushtaque said.‘We actually do not market such products locally. On a test basis we had advertised to sell some unfertile-eggs as we felt there are many people curious about non-conventional items. I think most of the people are interested in keeping the eggs as souvenirs,’ he said.
‘Although crocodile eggs are edible but such an idea is still a cultural shock here. And I think few would be interested in eating an egg at Tk 1,200,’ he added.
The farm began its journey in 2004 with 75 crocodiles, ranging from 7 feet to 12 feet in length, imported from Malaysia for commercial breeding at a cost of Tk 1.25 crore.
It made its first shipment of crocodile export worth $100,000 on June 4, 2010 to Heidelberg University of Germany for research purpose.
Mushtaque said that they had set up the farm with the objective of exporting over 5,000 crocodile skins annually and creating the means for earning up to $5 million by 2015.
Various countries, including France, Germany, Italy and Spain, have shown interest in importing crocodile skins from the farm, he said, and expressed the hope that they would be able to export 500 crocodile skins annually within next two or three years.
Now, crocodiles are Bangladesh’s new export item
Sat Jun 05 2010 16:26:34 GMT+0600 (Central Asia Standard Time) by IANS ( Leave a comment )
Dhaka, June 5 (IANS) Bangladesh has a new item on its export list - crocodiles. The first consignment that has just left for Germany is worth $100,000, a media report said Saturday.
The maiden export was conducted Friday by the Reptile Farm Ltd., country’s lone crocodile farm, five years after it began farming the reptile.
The farm, located in the Hatiber village in northern Mymensingh district, now has 825 saltwater crocodiles.
Finding crocodiles should not be a problem in a country criss-crossed by rivers, said Mustaq Ahmed, managing director of the farm, adding that this consignment is of 67 frozen saltwater crocodiles.
Germany’s Heidelberg University is importing the reptiles, of sizes between 12 inches and 14 feet, for research, Ahmed said.
“If the shipment reaches in time, scope for export of crocodiles from the country will widen,” the New Age newspaper reported on its website quoting him as saying.
The country’s maiden move to export crocodiles was delayed several times due to bureaucratic tangles over issuance of permits to exporters.
He said the farm was ready to export crocodiles to Germany in December, but it could not be undertaken as the forest department did not give the green signal then.
The farm began commercial breeding of crocodiles by importing the reptiles from Malaysia.
Ahmed said they had set up the farm with the aim of exporting over 5,000 crocodile skins annually and earning up to $5 million by 2015.
France, Germany, Italy and Spain, have shown keen interest in importing crocodile skins from the farm, he said.
Bangladesh’s principal exports are readymade garments and manpower.
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The maiden export was conducted Friday by the Reptile Farm Ltd., country’s lone crocodile farm, five years after it began farming the reptile.
The farm, located in the Hatiber village in northern Mymensingh district, now has 825 saltwater crocodiles.
Finding crocodiles should not be a problem in a country criss-crossed by rivers, said Mustaq Ahmed, managing director of the farm, adding that this consignment is of 67 frozen saltwater crocodiles.
Germany’s Heidelberg University is importing the reptiles, of sizes between 12 inches and 14 feet, for research, Ahmed said.
“If the shipment reaches in time, scope for export of crocodiles from the country will widen,” the New Age newspaper reported on its website quoting him as saying.
The country’s maiden move to export crocodiles was delayed several times due to bureaucratic tangles over issuance of permits to exporters.
He said the farm was ready to export crocodiles to Germany in December, but it could not be undertaken as the forest department did not give the green signal then.
The farm began commercial breeding of crocodiles by importing the reptiles from Malaysia.
Ahmed said they had set up the farm with the aim of exporting over 5,000 crocodile skins annually and earning up to $5 million by 2015.
France, Germany, Italy and Spain, have shown keen interest in importing crocodile skins from the farm, he said.
Bangladesh’s principal exports are readymade garments and manpower.
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