The Goat Trust's present effort is not only on marketing goats but also on developing a standardized transparent system of goat pricing that is reasonable and acceptable to farmers and traders both. There is no concrete evidence of community-based pricing standardization in India for now. Therefore we have come up this system of standardization and information collectivization
It has the following inherent advantages for the parties involved -
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.
