English translation: working on downstream production
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Explanation: This can refer to "finishing" operators, but is probably more likely in the African context to refer to abbatoirs and meat packing/processing.
"Kansas has 31,000 cattle and calf operations with nearly half (14,500), having less than 50
head. Throw in the those herds with between 50 and 99 head and you're talking about
20,400 farms or ranches, representing nearly 66% of all cattle and calf operations in our
state. For these operators, many of which are Farm Bureau members, obtaining premium
prices or downstream production or carcass quality information is difficult if not impossible." http://www.kfb.org/commodities/commoditiesimages/2010Commodi...
"The key role played by upstream and downstream production services ..... (i). SWAC, 2007. Livestock in the Sahel and West Africa : A series of policy notes ..." www.oecd.org/dataoecd/24/19/39437930.pdf
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"Agro-enterprise development component: The principal objective of this component is to assist farmers to gain access to sources of finance and financial services to fund their various fadama-related activities and to make available to farmers, a diversified menu of advisory services that would provide knowledge, information and guidance ranging from the management of crop and livestock enterprises and **downstream production** activities i.e. processing, grading, trade facilitation, to conflict resolution, entrepreneurial skills development etc." http://www.swedishtrade.se/sv/vara-kontor/afrika/nigeria/Aff...
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Presumably your context will give you some inkling as to what they are actually thinking of, but if your éleveurs produce goat meat, it might be things like distributing recipes using goat meat in supermarkets to encourage consumption, developing a line of goatburgers in the local takeaways, finding suppliers to mount goats' horns so they can be fitted to car bonnets, the world's their oyster.
Various questions have been asked with this term and it should be in the Kudoz glossaries.
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working on downstream production
Explanation: This can refer to "finishing" operators, but is probably more likely in the African context to refer to abbatoirs and meat packing/processing.
"Kansas has 31,000 cattle and calf operations with nearly half (14,500), having less than 50
head. Throw in the those herds with between 50 and 99 head and you're talking about
20,400 farms or ranches, representing nearly 66% of all cattle and calf operations in our
state. For these operators, many of which are Farm Bureau members, obtaining premium
prices or downstream production or carcass quality information is difficult if not impossible." http://www.kfb.org/commodities/commoditiesimages/2010Commodi...
"The key role played by upstream and downstream production services ..... (i). SWAC, 2007. Livestock in the Sahel and West Africa : A series of policy notes ..." www.oecd.org/dataoecd/24/19/39437930.pdf
-------------------------------------------------- Note added at 3 hrs (2010-05-10 11:29:28 GMT) --------------------------------------------------
"Agro-enterprise development component: The principal objective of this component is to assist farmers to gain access to sources of finance and financial services to fund their various fadama-related activities and to make available to farmers, a diversified menu of advisory services that would provide knowledge, information and guidance ranging from the management of crop and livestock enterprises and **downstream production** activities i.e. processing, grading, trade facilitation, to conflict resolution, entrepreneurial skills development etc." http://www.swedishtrade.se/sv/vara-kontor/afrika/nigeria/Aff...
B D Finch France Local time: 17:57 Does not meet criteria Native speaker of: English PRO pts in category: 40
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Many thanks, great help.
I like that - one answer and two agrees, nice and simple!!
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