Transportation
In order for the milk feeders to get to Nepal from Canada they can be shipped by ocean or air freight. The cheapest option is to ship multiple units to get a discounted rate, so sending 10 of the milk feeders by ocean freight will be most economical. Air freight from Vancouver, BC to Kalkata, India is $1693.15, while ocean freight is only $658.40 (Quotes, n.d.). Once the freight lands in Kalkata it will cost an extra $400 to truck it to Nepal. Therefore to ship 10 units of the milk feeders from Canada to Nepal it will cost $1058.40, or $102.84 per milk replacer unit.
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The automatic feeder is potentially a great tool to help Nepalese farmers, but every potentially great idea comes with some drawbacks. The largest down fall with the automatic feeder is price. The price of the automatic feeder is $1,534.30 Canadian, which is approximately 122,728.66 NRs. Since the entire annual income of a Nepalese goat farm was “70,000 NRs by selling goats” (Change in Life Due to Goat Farming, n.d.) it makes very little economic sense for a farmer of Nepal to invest in this product.
Even if the money for the machine was not an issue, not many Nepalese have access to a constant water supply or electricity, which is necessary for the function of the machine. Therefore, that would be an extra expense for a generator to power the machine, which would not fit in their budgets since Nepal has an “estimated average GDP per capita of US$470” (Suwal, 2015). The constant water supply might also be difficult for farmers to get as “In some of the rural regions of Nepal communities still rely on getting their drinking water from tube wells” (Suwal, 2015). Overall with the expense and inconvenient need of resources this product is not a good idea for Canada to export to Nepal. |
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