Wool production steps and global trade with recent statistics
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Tarih
2023
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Elsevier
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info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
Özet
Wool is one of the oldest and noblest fibers known to mankind. It is a globally traded commodity, but the international wool trade has quite distinctive features in comparison with the international trade of other fibers. The wool fiber is comparatively more expensive than all man-made fibers and cotton, as well as having a more difficult and costly processing cycle. Its diversity in the market is extensive and also has a fluctuating nature. The continuous developments and applications in sheep farming technology and management together with genetic improvement in sheep breeding have made a great impact on advancing sheep production and thus, wool production in the last 50 years. Nowadays, production efficiency in wool harvesting remains stable as the number of sheep population seems to pursue a controlled increase. However, there has been a shift in sheep production type toward meat sheep and away from wool sheep in favor of meat trade. The genetics world fiber production is estimated to increase by 2%–3% in 2021 to a new record level thanks to increases in the world man-made fiber production. The share of wool fiber, however, was 0.95% with a slight fall while the total share of natural fibers fell to 26.4% share of world fiber production. Production of other animal fibers such as cashmere, mohair, and angora also dropped. The total amount of clean wool fiber produced is around 1.2 million kg. Major wool producers are China, Australia, and New Zealand. Australia is the dominant exporter of fine wool, while the largest importer is China. © 2024 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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greasy wool, sheep, Wool, wool production, wool supply chain, wool trade
Kaynak
The Wool Handbook
