As Indonesian Muslims prepare to celebrate the Eid al-Adha festival, farms are seeing a boom in online sales that limit the need for people to visit farms during the pandemic to buy the goats, sheep and cows traditionally sacrificed at this time.
Sheep are pictured at the Mahir Farm, a goat and sheep feedlot, ahead of the Eid al-Adha, amid the spread of the coronavirus disease , in Bogor, West Java province, Indonesia, July 28, 2020. Picture taken July 28, 2020. REUTERS/Willy Kurniawan
Mahir Farm launched online sales of livestock in 2018 and this year the farm near Bogor, south of the capital Jakarta, has seen sales surge 50% compared to 2019. Indonesia has reported more than 100,000 coronavirus cases and over 4,800 fatalities, the highest toll in East Asia.During Eid al-Adha, Muslims around the world traditionally purchase livestock and after slaughter the meat is distributed to poorer members of the community.
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