Feedstuff Industry Report, 2012-2015

In 2011, China became the world's largest feedstuff producer with an output of 179 million tons. The feedstuff output increased by 6.4% year on year to 191 million tons in 2012, including 161.70 million tons of compound feed (representing a year-on-year increase of 8.4%), 23.50 million tons of concentrated feed (down 7.6% year on year) and 6.2 million tons of premixed feed (up 2.5% year on year). By the competition pattern, China feedstuff industry is perfectly competitive, with a low profit margin. In 2012, the overall gross margin of Chinese feedstuff processing enterprises was 11% and the overall net profit margin reached 5.2%, representing absolute and relative lower levels compared with other sub-sectors of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery. After the long-term market competition, the fittest survive, and China feedstuff industry has formed the market competition pattern where the national market is dominated by a minority of national conglomerates, regio

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