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Overview of the Beef Cattle Industry in China: The widening Deficit between Demand and Output in a Vicious Circle
Han X.P1, Hubbert B2, Hubbert ME2 and Reinhardt CD3*
1Technology Extension Station of Animal Husbandry of Qinghai, China.
2Clayton Livestock Research Center, New Mexico State University, Clayton, New Mexico.
3Department of Animal Sciences and Industry, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, USA.
- *Corresponding Author:
- Reinhardt CD
Department of Animal Sciences and Industry
Kansas State University
Manhattan, Kansas, USA
Tel: 785-532-1672
E-mail: cdr3@ksu.edu
Received Date: April 11, 2016; Accepted Date: June 13, 2016; Published Date: June 30, 2016
Citation: Han X, Hubbert B, Hubbert ME, Reinhardt CD (2016) Overview of the Beef Cattle Industry in China: The widening Deficit between Demand and Output in a Vicious Circle. J Fisheries Livest Prod 4:190. doi: 10.4172/2332-2608.1000190
Copyright: © 2016 Han X, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
This article introduces current situation of the beef cattle industry in China via its sorted industry, changed inventory and beef production variation. To make the situation more understandable, its advantages and disadvantages are presented from its producer size, indigenous cattle breeds and shrinked inventory with resource shortage of calves for feedlot. Whats more, this paper boiled basically the developing trends into widening deficit between beef import and export, widening margin of output-to-consumption, rapidly increasing average beef consumption and sharp rise beef price. Consequently, we held that the per capita beef consumption in China is fastly increasing, which makes the margin between output and consumption widen gradually, while the low productivities and shrinked cattle inventory making the conditions worse. Under such a condition, the deficit between import and export is expanding. Finally, we suggest that China should supports and extends more applied research works to improve cattle productivities. Besides, China should pay extra attention to standardized production system building and calf-crop operations.
