ABSTRACT
The Manipuri is a massive animal with large horns. In the Northern Region, the Bangar and Kachhar breeds are recognised. The Kachhar is probably the same as the Manipuri hybrid. Over the rest of Bangladesh the Bangar predominates. In the north-east of the Hill Tracts, the Lushies keep some Gayals-huge animals, much resembling the Asiatic Bison. Meithuns, which are probably a hybrid of Gayal and Hill cattle, are also reared in those inaccessible hills. Large annual cattle fairs, at each of which several thousand animals are marketed, are held at several places. The biggest of such fairs are held at Haripur, Nekamark, and Alawakhawa, Gangachhara Punhat and Jamalpur. Buffaloes are far more suited to the climatic and physiographic conditions of Bangladesh- They are slightly slower than oxen but their traction power is twice as much more. They are much bigger and heavier than the local cattle, under the same set of conditions.
