Brazilian farmers urged to make more of wool
18/08/2014
According to Senar, raw wool in the area will normally sell for a maximum of $1.10 per kilo. But after even minimal treatment, the price can go up by about 700%.
The organisation focused its training on helping farmers learn to claim some of that extra value, with talks and demonstrations on how best to wash and dye the wool, ranging to methods for making simple finished products.
Lead trainer, Senar’s Maria Ester Bazana, said she had been on farms in the past on which farmers had left kilos and kilos of wool to go to waste. “But it’s like hides from cattle; wool adds value,” she said.
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