 Understanding the Growth and the Decline of Small-Farm Production in the Swine Industry of Guangdong Province and in China from 1980 to 2010Véronique Chin Chapter 6 in The Political Economy of Agro-Food Markets in China, 2014, pp 152-179 from Palgrave Macmillan Abstract: Abstract Pork production has grown tremendously in China during the past three decades. Accounting for 64 per cent of national meat consumption in 2010, pork production has increased by 447 per cent since 1980 according to China Statistical Yearbooks (National Bureau of Statistics, various years). Since livestock are partly fed grains such as corn, the growth of meat output usually comes with substantial increases in these crops. However, China’s grain production increased by only 70 per cent during the same period, while corn net imports never exceeded 0.05 per cent of China’s corn production. Many questions emerge from these figures. First, how did China increase output by such rates? What has changed in the farm economics? Second, how do we understand the paradoxical discrepanq? of growth in meat and grain production? If swine are cereal eaters, how has China reached these output levels without a surge in cereal imports? Keywords: Rice Bran; Guangdong Province; Small Farm; Average Daily Gain; Peasant Farm (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-27795-4_7 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Palgrave Macmillan Books from Palgrave Macmillan |
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