Professions that Blossom during Adha Feast
09 September, 2016KHARTOUM (Sudanow.info.sd)—Certain professions flourish with the approach of Eid al-Adha (Greater Bairam) and the professionals exert tremendous efforts to earn the highest possible profit from this annual religious event in which the Sudanese customs and traditions are observed. New investors and jobless youths probe this occasion to gain guaranteed and quick profits.
SUDANOW examines hereunder six of those Eid-related professions:
Lambs:
The lamb is undoubtedly the principal feature and the primary economic factor of this season and the prices differ according to the home-region and to the weight, with lambs coming from Kordofan region in west Sudan demanding higher prices because they are of excellent progeny and are fed from natural pastures. They are the main source of export to the Gulf states, particularly to Saudi Arabia and especially during the pilgrimage season where pilgrims have to slay lamb (millions of those animals). This also leads to an increase in lambs prices because the pilgrimage season coincides with Greater Bairam,
The prices of lambs in Khartoum markets a week before the Eid ranged between SDG1800 and SDG2600 which the Livestock Exporters Chamber described as illusory, adding that the real prices, counting the cost, range between SDG1200 and SDG 1600 and they expect that after the end of the period of exportation the prices would not exceed SDG1500.
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Fodder:
Another trade that burgeons prior to Adha Feast is the sale of fodder as the lamb merchants who arrive in Khartoum from remote regions in west Sudan and Butanah in the east and elsewhere well before the Eid need fodder to feed their lambs and so do the people who buy their sacrifice lambs days ahead of the slaying date, fearing a rise in the price as the Eid draws nearer.
The fodder mainly consists of clover, a few grain peels and sorghum stems.
Butchers:
The butchers profession also blooms during this season, especially in the big cities, including Khartoum, while in the popular districts and villages the members of each family and their neighbors cooperate in slaying their lambs.
The slaughtering cost of a single lamb last year ranged between SDG150 and SDG200 in Khartoum's luxurious neighborhoods and from SDG75 to SDG100 in the ordinary neighborhoods in addition to parts of the lamb, such as the skin and head the owner of the lamb offers the butcher.
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Slaying Tools & Cooking Utensils:
The prices of the slaying tools and cooking utensils, such as the knives, choppers, gridirons and baking tins, also rise during this season and, instead of usually moving around with car accessories, toys, etc., peddlers carry those commodities through markets and at traffic signs, while other jobless young men present them on the ground by the street for prospective purchasers.Prices of grills and charcoal stoves for example jump by SDG30-50.
This trade is accompanied by the profession of sharpening the knives which is conducted by professional blacksmiths competed by amateur children and young men during the season.
Charcoal:
The charcoal is used extensively during the Adha season as people believe that the Eid is incomplete in absence of meat grilled on charcoal which they think gives the meat a special taste. The charcoal is sold in small plastic bags the price of which these days rose from five to 10-15 Sudanese pounds each while one kilogram of meat requires nearly two bags to be roasted.
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Vegetables:
The vegetables are a basic requirement during the Greater Bairam. The most important of those vegetables are the appetizers that include lemon juice, onions of the green, white and red kinds, peppers- both green and dried red- and crushed groundnuts mixed with peppers and lemon juice beside the components of the green salad, including tomatoes, cucumber and watercress. The price of one sack of white onion increased from SDG250 to 300, green pepper from 200 to 500 and lemon from 300 to 450.
Those vegetables are all indispensable in the preparation of the roasted meat and mararah (which consists of the liver, the lung and the light part of the abdomen mixed with lemon juice and spices) which is eaten either uncooked or half-cooked.
There are other items which help in the process of digestion such as the wormwood and fenugreek besides the dates which are used for producing the Sudanese Sharboat drink containing pungent spices which is also believed to help in the digestion process.
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