www.cgiar.org Challenges of livestock marketing Poorly equipped markets and marketing system •Markets are marginal plots of land at the peripheries of the village/towns •No fences, water troughs, feedlots, veterinary clinics, and sheds for animals and marketers in almost all of the livestock markets. [...] •Standing in the market with one or two animals in the market is not going to get any respect for the farmer. [...] Demand for & and impact of market facilities The key argument • Lack of market infrastructure significantly undermines the market margins farmers generate and elevates the prices they pay for agricultural products when involved as buyers. [...] Let’s have the right mindset about the importance of marketing - – Marketing – is the engine of every business or organization. [...] Formulating and implementing genuine policies and legislatives to encourage the private sector – All healthy markets are run by the private economic firm – Public economic firm is inherently inefficient compared to the private firm – in relative terms.
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