Author:Braun, ALDate:Apr 1999Rare, luxury or speciality animal fibres have an exclusively and characteristic, that are rarely associated with other fibres. Their scarcity is due to the fact that they are difficult to produce on a large scale, because of climatic conditions ...Read more
Author:Braun, ALDate:Jan 2003Three hundred combs for combing cashmere hair, constructed by CSIR, were provided to the farmers free of charge. Farmers have earned in total plus minus R11 000 income from harvesting cashmere hair for the 2002 combing season. Farmers have ...Read more
Author:Department of Science and TechnologyDate:Apr 2005During the research period the project was funded by the CSIR and in 2001 the Poverty Alleviation programme of the Department of Science and Technology (DST) became involved in the project. The project was funded by DST to the amount of kR5700 ...Read more
Author:Department of Science and TechnologyDate:Apr 2005During the research period the project was funded by the CSIR and in 2001 the Poverty Alleviation programme of the Department of Science and Technology (DST) became involved in the project. The project was funded by DST to the amount of kR5700 ...Read more
Author:Braun, AL; Roux, JADate:2004A large number of indigenous goats posses two distinct coats, soft, fine undercoat (cashmere) and a coarse overcoat (guard hair the down fibre length and yield need to be improved by following an upgrading programme in order to lead to a ...Read more