A Day At Asia’s Largest Chicken Mandi In Ghazipur

It’s 5.45 am. While most of Delhi is still asleep, the Ghazipur chicken mandi is bustling with life. Hundreds of trucks, mostly from Haryana, Rajasthan and Punjab, are already lined up, waiting for their turn to be unloaded at what is Asia’s biggest livestock market. “The trucks start trickling in after midnight. However, the maximum flow of vehicles is between 4 am and 6 am,” says guard Sunil Kumar, 40. “On an average, 150 trucks come to this place. And each truck carries nearly 2,000 chickens in around 220 crates, which are then distributed all over Delhi and NCR,” says Haji Iqbal Ahmed, 47, one of the 87 wholesale dealers at the mandi. “The trucks have to be below the safety limit of 2,000 kg,” he adds. In front of the enclosure where Ahmed keeps his stock, there is a fenced space for chickens that go unsold for the day. It’s a short-lived freedom but compared to the hens packed inside cages on trucks, these are luckier — they have a small area where they can move around, which they do, foraging for food. Read More: http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/fowl-play-at-asias-largest-mandi-traders-say-see-for-yourself-2987918/ ——————————————————————————————— Subscribe for more videos: http://goo.gl/RjJrX0 Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/indianexpress Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/indianexpress Download the Indian Express app at http://indianexpress.com/apps/ Watch more videos at http://www.indianexpress.com/videos