Leather loss
As far as food is concerned, Kashmiris share a strong partiality to their meat and fish. But every time a Kashmiri eats one rupee worth non-vegetarian food, the state economy loses .75 rupee. Conversely, every rupee of non-vegetarian food can fetch .75 rupee to the state.
To sustain its non-vegetarians (over two-third of its total population), J&K slaughters 8.28 lakh cows, 1.21 lakh buffaloes, 12.68 lakh goats and 19.32 lakh sheep every year. Add to it the six lakh goats and sheep that die of natural causes annually. With a yearly increase of 10 per cent, the total yearly yield of hides and skins stands at 11.42 lakh hides and 33.41 lakh skins