Potential for Increasing Producers' Income from Wool, Fibre and Pelts in Central AsiaIf markets for high value fibres are developed, this will give producers a renewable annual income over several years per animal, while the carcass gives only a final income at 2-6 years of age for the less valuable coarse wools, efforts are required to add value through domestic processing, as significantly higher producers prices for raw wool of this type cannot be expected. |
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Almaty Angora goat Ashgabad Asia Bishkek buyers camel hair carpets cashmere goats cashmere prices Central Asian countries China Chinese coarse wool D.B. Holdsworth declined dehaired domestic fibres and pelts fleeces goat fibre goat hair herders increasing industry Karakul Breeding Karakul pelts Karakul sheep Karakul wool Kazakstan and Kyrgyzstan Kazakstan and Turkmenistan Kerven kg or pelt livestock production Livestock Research Institute Macaulay Institute mean fibre diameter meat Merino microns million sheep Mongolia national scientists native goats organisation pelt products personal communication post-Soviet Central Asian potential Price US$/kg privatised processing factories producer prices raw cashmere raw wool regions Russia Selection and Breeding Semipalatinsk Sheep Breeding sheep population sheep wool sold by producers Source South African mohair Soviet period Soviet Union state-owned Swakara Table Tajikistan Taraz thousand tonnes three grades Tonnes of wool traders Turkmen Mallory Uzbekistan wool and fibre wool production Wool Record 2002 Wool Scouring Plant wool/fibre