project - EIP-AGRI Operational Group
IMPLEMENTATION OF AN INTEGRAL MODEL FOR THE SELECTION, CLASSIFICATION AND COMMERCIALIZATION OF WOOL ORIENTED TO INCREASING THE PROFITABILITY OF SMALL
Objectives
Wool is a by-product and farmers are hardly paid for it, which means an additional cost due to shearing tasks. Given this situation and considering the low profit margins the sector works with, it is necessary to implement solutions for the improvement and homogenization of wool quality, which would allow its revaluation and classification by qualities, giving the farmer bargaining power. The solution is to shorten the sales channels, for which the transformation and sale at the local level is proposed, instead of the wool being exported and returned to the peninsula in the form of fabrics, thus reducing the carbon footprint and recovering the rural population.
Activities
Training of farmers in classification tasks prior to shearing.
Implementation of an objective quality analysis procedure.
Identification of animals with wool potential and monitoring of offspring.
Verification of nutritional and animal-based factors predominant on the quality of wool.
Definition of the wool washing and classification process.
Design of a simple wool quality cataloging system oriented to the farmer.
Implementation of a digital livestock-client platform as a meeting channel and potential commersialisation of wool.
Report on the economic, social and environmental impact of the new integral model.
Project details
- Main funding source
- Rural development 2014-2020 for Operational Groups
- Rural Development Programme
- 2014ES06RDNP001 España - Programa Nacional de Desarrollo Rural
Location
- Main geographical location
- Zamora
- Other geographical location
- Segovia, Madrid
EUR 566 298.00
Total budget
Total contributions from EAFRD, national co-financing, additional national financing and other financing.
Project keyword
3 Practice Abstracts
Increase the economic profitability of sheep farms through the direct sale of differentiated (pre-classified) wool and associated services to the small wool processing industry created. Main results: i) Implementation of a digital livestock-client platform as a meeting channel and potential marketing of wool; ii) Report on the economic, social and environmental impact of the new comprehensive system from the point of view of livestock and rural sustainability. Practical recommendations: proposed to facilitate the sale of wool and to quantify in a practical way the economic, social and environmental benefits that the implementation of this new wool marketing model can translate into, in which intermediaries will be avoided and economic benefits will be obtained for direct sales locally. For this, there will be the creation of a new digital meeting platform, compatible with mobile devices, between farmers and customers that allows promoting and making trade visible through the publication of availability, origins, qualities and needs.
Start-up of a small wool processing industry. Main results: i) Definition of the wool washing and classification process; ii) Design of a simple wool quality cataloging system aimed at farmers. Practical recommendations: focused on the start-up of a small wool processing industry, it is about offering a close and trustworthy service to the local farmer where the collection of wool without profit will be avoided thanks to both the improvement of the quality addressed in objective 1 of the project, as well as the basic instruction of the farmer in questions of shearing, classification and cataloging of the wool that will allow him to be in a better negotiating position.
Development and consolidation of a plan to improve wool quality through objective analysis procedures and highly heritable phenotypic selection (wool fiber diameter). Main results: i) Training of ranchers in classification tasks prior to shearing; ii) Start-up of an objective wool quality analysis procedure; iii) Identification of animals that improve wool and monitoring of offspring; iv) Verification of nutritional and animal-based factors or management that influence wool quality. Practical recommendations: given the current situation in the sector, the approach to improving the quality of wool at the farm level is contemplated through objective procedures of analysis and phenotypic selection that are highly heritable and of great interest in the textile industry (pj : diameter of the wool fiber) without the need to address genotypic analyzes that would make the process excessively expensive and make the project unfeasible, and also maintaining compatibility with the meat characters currently considered in the breeding processes. In this way, it is considered that in a simple way from the methodological point of view, thanks to the use of advanced analysis technologies, it will be possible to obtain results in a relatively short space of time where the farmer will actively participate.
Contacts
Project coordinator
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Imasde Agroalimentaria, S.L. (Daniel)
Project coordinator