quantity over quality

The lack of market controls has incentivized herders to produce quantity over quality. There are no significant price premiums for higher-quality cashmere, and grading processes are poor. This microeconomic frame describes breeding and production strategies that deliberately increase cashmere weight (e.g., by interbreeding goats to produce higher volumes of coarser cashmere), as opposed to the ecological competition frame (#poor-cashmere-quality-from-overgrazing).