APPENDIX C - ACCOUNT OF VISITS AND DISCUSSIONS

Visit to Pugu Market 7/9/94

1. Animals come from railhead to holding grounds

2. Some days official sale is not held - then buyers and sellers will conduct private sales

3. Volume of sales is approx 200 animals /day, 7 days per week.

4. Sampling for weighing and costing purposes is approx 20%

5. This amounts to 100 sampled animals per week, 400 per month

6. Each official sale is recorded in a ledger - with buyer, seller, number of each sex (bull, cow, steer or mixed), and price.

7. The settlement is done directly between buyer and seller; the charges are levied by the auction on the buyer

8. These charges are::

- Tsh 500 - market fee

- Tsh 200 - movement permit (checked at road block)

- Tsh 10 - stock route fee

Unlike many markets, the fees are NOT a percentage of selling price - they are a flat fee per head. As a footnote, this of course penalises low-value cattle.

9. The monies from these charges are channelled to the Treasury; Pugu market must then request a budget, which is usually of some magnitude smaller than monies collected

10. Blank item

11. The 20% sampling involves paint branding, grading, aging, sexing, and weighbridge weighing; the price is then recorded against sampled animals. This is done on the standard 30-line sheets mentioned in the Bokella interview....

12. Without yet doing timings, it is felt that sampling all animals would slow down the auctioning process - this should be checked on revisit 8/9/94 for working auction

13. Cattle arriving in Dar by road do not generally come to this market - they may go direct for slaughter at the government-run City Slaughter House - which handles approx 50 cattle per day plus 150 sheep and goats. Estimated 400 cattle /day total arrive Dar by rail + road + driving (if any). This corresponds to 12 kg per person per year for the approx 1.5 million Dar residents

J.Bokella comment 8/9/94 - some animals do in fact come into

Pugu by road

14. Some animals are slaughtered directly at the Pugu Market on the slaughter slab, which is privately run

15. A blackboard is on display at the auction ring - this displays market info as per the reports produced - for each grade and sex, nr sold per day , average price, average weight, and average price/kg

Bokella states that this info is changed weekly.

16. The market does daily return sheets (one /day), which indicate number of animals and price information, but with no weight data. I forget whether these daily sheets give breakdown by class and/or sex - to be rechecked

on second visit...

17. Carboned receipt books exist for payment of the Tsh 500-00