¡¡¡¡I The Status Quo and Prospects
of Feeding Stuff Industry
¡¡China has much quality grain feeding stuff but they are
all costly. It is impossible to use these quality but costly
feeding stuff in livestock breeding all the time. Chinese
livestock breeding is basically characterized by the fact
that 85% of the meat products are supplied by numerous individual
raisers. These individual raisers are low in feeding technology
levels and are highly dispersed. Their feeding capacity is
low, recycling is long, production fund is limited and production
scale is small. They mainly rely upon cheap labor and non-convenient
feeding stuff (rice bran, distillers¡¯ grains, swill, vegetable
stems and leaves) to maintain their production. These characteristics
determine that the individual raisers can not afford for the
costly grain stuff in large quantity, which leads to the situation
that the feeding stuff produced by the manufactures are hard
to sell and the numerous individual raisers can not afford
for the feeding stuff, and the status quo will exist for a
long period of time. This is where the bottle neck lies in
development of China¡¯s livestock breeding: large feeding stuff
manufacturers are competing fiercely and many of the enterprises
has gone into bankruptcy while the massive individual raisers¡¯
demand for quality feeding stuff cannot be met. On the other
hand, even if all the individual raisers could afford for
the costly grain feeding stuff, China¡¯s grain resources (maize,
wheat, and soybean) cannot sustain such demands. With China¡¯s
entry into WTO and development of economy globalization, China¡¯s
feeding stuff industry and livestock breeding are now experiencing
strong impact of international market. It is an urgent and
severe issue as how to lower the cost of feeding stuff while
sufficiently meet various nutritious demands of livestock.
Only with unremitting innovation to produce highly effective
feeding stuff with low cost can feeding stuff additives and
processing machinery follow the development trend of feeding
stuff industry and achieve an undefeatable position in the
market. China feeding stuff industry¡¯s long-term steady growth
relies upon development of the feeding stuff that can meet
the demand of the dispersed individual raisers, which can
create massive social and economic benefits. The actual and
potential markets are extensive. This implies that the feeding
stuff industry must combine the local stuff resources and
breeding characteristics, fully make uses of the advantages
of low investment and flexible operation of small scale feeding
stuff enterprises to develop quality feeding stuff with local
characteristics. This is an enormous market. In fact, some
insightful men have preceded and achieved remarkable economic
benefits.