China's Animal Protein Sector - Challenges and opportunities of meeting and demand growth


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Date: February, 2007

Abstract: With 20 percent of the world’s population, China’s meat market offers tremendous opportunities and this fact has captured the attention of international investors.
Meat production has risen continuously since the introduction of economic reforms in the early 1980s. Meat output, in fact, surged by more than 300 percent between 1980 and 2005. However, China’s meat industry is still characterized by a fragmented structure composed of countless small-sized farms. There is a r...

Research Type: F&A Review


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