Executive finding
Bangladesh raises more sacrificial cattle than it needs, then prices each animal by eye, hauls it to Dhaka, and lets the market collapse over the final days at the farmer's expense. A weighing scale fixes most of it.
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BDPolicyLab Research. (2026). The Haat That Eats the Farmer. Bangladesh Policy Laboratory. https://bdpolicylab.com/publications/the-haat-that-eats-the-farmer
Method and source
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