The beef export industry had generated revenues of more than Rs. 17,000 crores in 2014 and at about Rs. 160 a kilo was the cheapest meat available in the market. The ban will mean an increase in prices of all other meats as there is not enough buffalo meat to compensate for the loss in supply from bull/bullock meat. Khalique Ahmed, Chairman, All Maharashtra Cattle Merchant’s Association gives the statistics, “Buffalo meat as of today comprises just 25% of the beef market as most of it is exported. There are just not enough buffaloes in Maharashtra to service the domestic demand as well as continue with the same export numbers.”