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A message is about a leading food trade organisation, HMA Agro Industries, processing and exporting cow meat from India is going viral on social media.
The claim also adds a communal narrative to it by selectively naming of the promoters of the company, including Wajid Ahmed, Gulzar Ahmed, Mohd Mahmood Qureshi, Mohd Ashraf Qureshi, Zulfiqar Ahmed Qureshi and Parvez Alam.
(Archives of similar claims can be seen here and here. We also received this query on our WhatsApp tipline in other Indian languages.)
What's the truth?: The PR Communications team of the HMA Agro Industries clarified to us that the organisation does not process or export cow meat as it is illegal in Uttar Pradesh.
We also checked on the website of the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA), which comes under the Government of India's Ministry of Commerce and Industry, and it states that HMA Agro only indulges in different types of buffalo meat exports.
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How did we find out the truth?: We checked HMA Agro's website and found that the organisation handles food and agro products including frozen fresh deglanded buffalo meat, prepared/frozen natural products, vegetables and cereals.
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