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Forty-eight hours before the day of the sacrifice, in Constantine, the prices of sheep still remain inaccessible to ordinary mortals. A quick trip to the cattle souk of El-Khroub leaves you perplexed.
The fathers of families, many of whom ended up abandoning the ritual, the majority gave in to wandering among the animals jealously guarded by young traders for the most part.
If many buyers have ended up demobilizing, the most determined continue to hope that on the eve, that is to say this Saturday, the horse dealers or rather the intermediaries looking for easy gain will put aside their cunning and show generosity. , to find a sheep.
The same goes for the well-known breeders in the rural regions surrounding the town of bridges, the observation is almost the same, the prices remain excessive. It is almost rare to find a beast for less than 10 million cents.
Another observation: for those forced to fall back on fresh meat, many were surprised, if they found it at the local butcher, by the price of a kilogram of sheep meat at no less than 3,300 per kilogram. Indeed, the majority of butchers adjoining working-class neighborhoods have sold out almost everything, much to the surprise of the undecided. Worse still, for offal, for those, many of whom it should be noted, accustomed to consuming it on the first day, they are offered at 2 million cents “per kit” (liver, lungs, hearts and spleen).
Several families had long before taken the option of celebrating Eid with a few kilos of meat and, for the wealthiest, liver and other offal so as not to miss their usual feast around a good grill on the first day of Eid.
At the fruit and vegetable market, the situation is hardly different. The prices of almost all agricultural products, especially fruits and vegetables, have almost doubled.
The potato is 180 DA, the zucchini is offered at 320 DA, the lettuce at no less than 250 DA, to name just these three examples.
For fruits, few of those displayed on merchants’ stalls are offered for less than 300 DA. Only the price of strawberries remains lenient. Dealers have every incentive to get rid of it before it rots.