Chinese feed industry is challenged, but looking for ways to change

摘要

Graphs of Chinese production data over the last decade generally show a constant upward line. Here and there some hick-ups appear but these are only for short periods. No wonder that many exporting countries are eying China as the place to be for agriculture trade. Trading figures for animal products show that China is deficient in animal protein and that imports increase with a faster pace than exports. Feed and food company Nutreco, for its international Agri Vision conference held in June in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, invited Hui-yi Cai to outline the Chinese feed market. Cai, apart from being deputy president of the Chinese Feed Industry Association is also director of the Feed Research Institute of the Chinese Academy Agriculture Science and president of the Chinese Feed Industry Economy Committee. From his data it can be seen that China exported animal products in 2007 to a value of 404.5 million dollar, which is an increase of 8.67% compared to 2006. Imports, however, were valued at 647 million dollar, which was 42.2% higher than in 2006. This extreme increase has a lot to do with the dip in pork production in 2007.