Australia exports wool.Why?
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Explanation:
present Australia produces somewhere around 30% of the World’s wool requirements. Australia produces around 50% of the World’s ‘Apparel’ wool. Apparel wool is the higher quality and finer wool that is mainly used for high fashion clothing. Australia’s climate, especially in the drier inland areas is ideal for fine wool production, and the Australian bred Merino sheep produces large quantities of this fine wool under these conditions. Australia has been a leading innovator for quite some time in the selective breeding of sheep for wool production as well as innovation in the manufacture and presentation of wool products.
Australia therefore produces a large proportion of the World’s annual wool production and most of this wool is of high quality. Australia can consistently produce the wool of highest quality, the super-fine wools of less than 19 microns, which are in demand for high quality clothing, and commands high prices at auction. Australia has been producing wool of the highest quality in great quantities since the early 1800’s and has been the World’s largest exporter of greasy wool since 1870. Without Australian wool production, Australia would never have become as prosperous and established as it is today. It may have even been left behind in history as a failed state.
Australia doesn’t manufacture much of the World’s wool products but most of the World’s most expensive suits will have wool in them that was grown in Australia.
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Remarkable luck is the most likely reason for Australia being a wool giant. · A large country with a climate almost perfectly suited for a ...