Feed Market Review & Outlook 2011-2012

In 2012, several policies regarding feed industry were published in China, which shall have profound influence on China feed industry. Standards for feed and feed additive manufacturers are set higher, medium-small scale enterprises that China's qualify would have to shut down, while the large scale ones will celebrate their amazing development opportunities. With reference to market, large scale feed enterprises went on steadily in 2012 as usual. The prices of feed ingredients such as soybean meal, corn, fishmeal, etc. increased greatly in 2012 compared with 2011, while boom index of breeding industry went through continuous decline. Taking the year of 2012 as a whole, hog breeding profit was at low level, broiler breeding industry hardly saw any profit or even experienced deficit, layer breeding industry’s scale shrunk due to production capacity surplus. All of the above limited the end consumption ability of feed products compared with 2011. For medium-small scale

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