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”. Report No. 2. June-November 2007
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Liba Brent. (30/11/2007). 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”. Report No. 2. June-November 2007.
Abstract
The report offers a progress summary on the ICARDA project “Community Action in
Integrated and Market Oriented Feed-Livestock Production in Central and South Asia,”
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.” This
activity is focused on establishing a market chain for mohair yarn which is one of the key
export commodities produced by women in the pilot region. During the first project year
2006-2007 research was conducted on the production and marketing of Tajik mohair and
mohair yarn and a promising new market for handspun kid mohair yarn in the United
States was identified. An access to the this growing US market would allow the Tajik
women to earn much higher incomes than by producing coarse, low quality yarns for the
Russian market which is currently their main outlet. The report briefly overviews the
work that has been done to link the Tajik spinners to the American market during the first
project year. It then describes a second set of steps that has been taken to further develop
yarn production and marketing and bring the Tajik spinners closer to the objective on
marketing mohair yarn and knitted products in the United States.
