A. For goat farmers -
- Easy and quick assessment making less prone to treachery
- Reasonable price and no fear of loss
- Women are friendly and can reduce gender business in goat sale
- Can easily estimate feeding cost and output received (By comparing pre and post price at regular intervals)
- High-quality goats can get a better price
- Advantages of seasonal meat price fluctuation can be passed on
B. For Traders -
- Reduction in bargaining time
- Easy access to collective information of marketable goats and hence higher business operation cycle
- No need for physical presence to share the price of goats
- Quality segregation will be possible
- Availability of high-quality goats and bucks will be high
- In long term a more dependable relation for trading
At The Goat Trust, we have set the following immediate task and have moved on it significantly -
To develop goat pricing standard and pilot community-led live body weight-based pricing system for goats
To facilitate an easy-to-use saleable goat information collection and dissemination system at the local and regional levels.
