Dhaka: Most Bangladeshis will sacrifice cows this week for Eid Al-Adha, but some will go above and beyond and mark the occasion with a greater offering: camels.

As they are not a local species, the animals are uncommon to see in Bangladesh. Unless they originate from the lone animal farm that raises them in the nation's capital, Dhaka, they usually arrive at local cattle markets and are imported from India.

The only place in the nation where camels are bred and raised is the Babe Madina Camel Farm, which was founded in 2004 and currently has 11 animals.

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"We bought 10 camels from a cattle market in Dhaka when we first started this camel farm. The farm's manager, Shahar Ali, who has worked there for the past 18 years, claimed that all of these were imported from Rajasthan, India.

"At first, people had doubts about our ability to raise the desert animals in our climate. However, we were successful.

The farm has one five-month-old calf in addition to the 11 adults. Only on special occasions and to extremely wealthy clients who can afford them, it distributes its animals for use in celebrations of the holiday known as the Feast of Sacrifice, which honours the Prophet Ibrahim's trial by faith when he was asked by God to sacrifice his son.

"During Eid Al-Adha, people frequently come to our farm," Ali said. "We sold a camel to a customer from Dhaka on Sunday. It went for $18,000.

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The farm also regularly sells camel milk, but it's very expensive, costing four times as much as cow's milk.

Ali explained that camel milk is popular in this area. "We charge $4 per litre for it."

Customers are frequently aware of the animals' significance in Middle Eastern culture.

"I spent ten years living in Saudi Arabia. Since then, I've enjoyed camels, the desert's friends," Alamgir Hossain, a prospective buyer, told Arab News while touring the farm.

Sulaiman Hossain is one of those who visits the farm out of curiosity.

"Camels are desert-dwelling animals. I first learned about this camel farm a few months ago," he said. "I'm in awe of how camels are raised here in Bangladesh without any desert," the author said.

But he has little chance of bringing one of them home.

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The manager of the farm said that because the farm takes care to keep enough animals for breeding, it is unlikely that more animals will be sold during the Eid season.

A mother camel must give birth to a baby for about two years. We feed them husk, grass, and straw. These camels can consume up to 20 litres of water per day during the hot summers, according to Ali. "Here, raising camels is not very simple."