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Community Action in Integrated and Market Oriented Feed-Livestock Production in Central and South Asia Project: Value added local processing of goat fibers by women and assessing the characteristics of naturally colored mohair and the potentials for its marketing”

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Title Community Action in Integrated and Market Oriented Feed-Livestock Production in Central and South Asia Project: Value added local processing of goat fibers by women and assessing the characteristics of naturally colored mohair and the potentials for its marketing”
 
Creator Brent, Liba
 
Subject yarn
goat fibers
handspun
 
Description Tajikistan is the poorest of the Central Asian republics, with income per capita just $330.
Tajik families and especially women are in need of development assistance to improve
living standards. The ICARDA project “Community Action in Integrated and Market
Oriented Feed-Livestock Production in Central and South Asia” works to improve
livelihoods of rural families in the Sugd oblast through research on production and
marketing of agricultural products and the development of new market chains that would
link producers with urban markets. The project activity #16 “Value added local
processing of goat fibers by women and assessing the characteristics of naturally colored
mohair and the potentials for its marketing” is focused on establishing a market chain for
mohair yarn which is one of the key export products produced by women in the pilot
region. During the first project year research was conducted on the production and
marketing of Tajik mohair and mohair yarn and a promising new market for kid mohair
yarn in the United States was identified. In April 2007 ICARDA researchers worked
with Tajik women to make yarn samples for the US market. The preliminary tests of the
samples by American knitters confirmed that the Tajik artisans have the raw materials
and skills to produce high quality, handspun yarns that could be sold in yarn stores in the
United States. Selling luxury, kid mohair yarns in the United States as a Fair Trade
product would allow the women to earn much higher incomes than by producing coarse
yarns for the Russian market which is currently their main outlet. The project team
continues to work on developing all the necessary components of the mohair yarn market
chain with the objective of successfully linking the Tajik women spinners with American
consumers. This report offers a summary of activities undertaken during the first project
year.
 
Date 2011-06-12
2020-08-11T18:32:01Z
2020-08-11T18:32:01Z
 
Type Internal Report
 
Identifier https://mel.cgiar.org/dspace/limited
Liba Brent. (12/6/2011). Community Action in Integrated and Market Oriented Feed-Livestock Production in Central and South Asia Project: Value added local processing of goat fibers by women and assessing the characteristics of naturally colored mohair and the potentials for its marketing”.
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11766/11509
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Language en
 
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