Nature of livestock marketing and meat consumption per capita in Afghanistan

It also includes discussions of the development of the livestock marketing problem in Afghanistan, meat production and consumption in Afghanistan, and the livestock supply areas in Afghanistan in 1346 (1968/1968). While a stockman"s profits and losses depend on the market situation it is the least understood phase of the operations. Marketing entails the transfer of ownership of goods and payment between animal producers and buyers. The major problems of marketing are: how to supply, when to supply, where to supply, and for whom to supply as cheaply and efficiently as possible for the various equalizing and non-equalizing differential earners. The function of livestock marketing is not completed until meat and meat by-products are in the hands of consumers. The most important functions of livestock marketing are cutting the meat animals into the cuts and products for the consumer, locating the products in the hands of demanders at the desired location at the right time, and providing meat in the quality and quantity desired. Thus the marketing of slaughter animals covers all the channels between producers and final consumers of the meat.