Date: May, 2003
Abstract: China’s meat industry has been growing continuously since the commencement of the economic reform in the early 1980’s. Between 1983 and 2001, the compound annual growth rates (CAGEs) of the production of pork, poultry, beef, and mutton were 6.64%, 12.4%, 17.1% and 9.7% respectively. As the largest pork producer and the second largest poultry producers in the world China’s meat industry is characterized by a fragmented structure, where countless backyard farms play an important ...
Research Type: F&A Review