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cashmere goat
A cashmere goat is any breed of goat that produces cashmere wool, the goat's fine, soft, downy, winter undercoat, in commercial quality and quantity.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.acga.org.au/goatnotes/A002.php )〕 This undercoat grows as the day length shortens and is associated with an outer coat of coarse hair, which is present all the year and is called guard hair. Most common goat breeds, including dairy goats, grow this two-coated fleece.
The down is produced by secondary follicles, the guard hair by the primary follicles.〔
In 1994, China had an estimated population of 123 million goats and is the largest producer of cashmere down. Local breeds are dominant. In the past decades, breeding programs have been started to develop productive breeds. The cashmere goat is a fiber goat along with the Pygora goat, Nigora goat, and the Angora goat.
==Origin of cashmere goat==
Cashmere wool is defined by the high quality and softness of the fiber. In the 14th century this goat was first found by a Persian called Ali el hamdani in region of Kashmir. The word ''cashmere'' is an old spelling of ''Kashmir''. The history of the cashmere goat, and hence cashmere wool, started when mir Ali hamadani took some wool from Kashmir and made socks, shawls, and caps. He gave socks as a gift to the king of Kashmir and suggested to the king that they start making shawls of this wool.
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