Xinjiang Autonomous Region sheep & beef cattle steadily grow
" Xinjiang sheep cattle market supply steady growth by 2013." The reporter was told by the regional Animal Husbandry Department.
Industry statistics department predicted that by the end of 2013 Xinjiang region (excluding Corps) livestock amount will reach 53,000,000, an increase of 3.2% compared with year 2012; livestock slaughter number was 55.5 million, an increase of 4.5%, of which 3.66 million cattle slaughter while sheep 42.6 million, an increase of 4.5% and 5.1% respectively year on year.
Another statistics data shows that in 2013 mutton prices rose slightly in the first quarter in Xinjiang region. Bone-in mutton’s average price was 57.45 CNY / kg; this price got smooth fluctuations in the second quarter, average price was 62.33 RMB / kg; and slightly decreased in the third quarterand the bone-in lamb price was 62.08 CNY / kg.
In November 2013, the average price of bone-in mutton was 62.24 CNY / kg in the Xinjiang region, which was higher than the countrywide average price 61.25 CNY / kg. Meanwhile affected by domestic beef prices rose sharply, beef price in Xinjiang region continued to raise, the average price of boned beef rise from 54.49 CNY / kg the first quarter of 2013 to 62.4 CNY /kg in November, which is close to the national average beef price.
This year Xinjiang region has increased the policy support to sheep cattle industry and planned to invest 1.7 billion RMB from 2013 to 2020 to promote this industry. Data shows that from 2012 to the end of June, 2013, the region’s livestock loan balance reached14.97 billion CNY , of which about 75% of the loan was for sheep beef cattle industry.
Michael Boddington from Asian Agribusiness Consulting (AAC) has been involved in agribusiness in Asia since 2000. AAC has office both in Vietnam Ho Chi Minh City and China Beijing. So AAC has a thorough understanding of the Viet Nam and China aqua industry and produces up-to-date research reports on the market. We can offer insights on supply and demand trends and comments on the future structure of Asian agribusiness. If you would like to know more please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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The Vietnam situation of the dairy cattle and milk industry
From 2001 to now, the Vietnamese raw milk only supplied 30% demands in domestic in spite of increase by 10% per year. In 2013, estimate the turnover imports of the milk and the production from milk will reach over USD1 billion, leading to the Vietnam on the top 20 country that imports milk highest in the global. Each of years, the Vietnam has imported over 1.2 million tonnes milks.
According to the Deputy of Director of The Department of Livestock Husbandry, Mr. Nguyen Xuan Duong, although the quantity of the dairy cattle increases to fourth fold from 2001 to now (increase by 125 thousand dairy cattle) but the Vietnamese consumption is only 15 liter milk per year.
According to the estimate in 2013, the total of the raw milk in country has produced 400,000 tonnes, it only supplied 30% demands in domestic and 70% milk remains must import. According to the General Customs Office, the Vietnam milk and milk product import had reached USD940.6 million from the first year 2013 to 15th November, 2013.
According to Mr. Nguyen Xuan Duong, by 2015, The Vietnam will produce 700 million liter milk and increase to 1 billion liter milk by 2020. Moreover, developing the dairy cattle family farm will increase to 10-15 dairy cattle per farm.
Otherwise, according to the Secretary General of the Association of Vietnamese milk, Mr. Trinh Quy Pho, according to the database estimated of dairy cattle breeding in 2012, the total of the cows in the country had reached 5,194,178 cows, in which the quantity of dairy cattle had reached 166,989 but only 98,372 dairy cattle produce milk. Specially, almost the Vietnam dairy cattle are breeding in family farm with120,000 dairy cattle.
In addition, Vinamilk Corporation has associated over 5,000 dairy cattle farm, equally 65,000 dairy cattle with 460 tonnes raw milk per day. They also have 90 tonnes raw milk per day from 5 their dairy cattle farms. In fact, they have bought over 60% raw milk of family farm in the country.
In the 11 months of 2013, the total of the raw milk in the country that they had bought over 150,000 tonnes raw milk on standard, equally VND1, 621 billion. Moreover, there are only 2 dairy cattle farms of Vinamilk that has achieved the ISO 9001:2008 standard in Tuyen Quang province and Nghe An province.
Besides, in 2012, FrieslandCampina Vietnam Corporation had bought 70,000 tonnes milk from over 3,100 dairy cattle farms in the country, equally 30,000 dairy cattle, and increase by 10,000 tonnes milk compared in 2011. They also have applied the program Good Dairy Farming Practices – GDFP of the FAO.
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The shortage the fund of the livestock farmers
Currently, the prices of live pigs and poultry are increasing while the price of feed decreased. This is the advantage condition for farmers to reproduce the herd size. The price of live pigs will expect VND50, 000 per kilogram. The price of chicken has reached around VND37, 000-38,000 per kilogram, increase by 26% compared with the last month. However, the farmers are short of fund because of losing profit in previous months of 2013.
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Developing the dairy industry in Ho Chi Minh City
In recent years, Ho Chi Minh City has a good development in dairy farming. There are 9,000 dairy farmers with over 90,000 cows in HCM city, averaging 11.63cows/household. The milk production reaches 5.100 kg per cows per lactation cycle, a 600 kg per cows per lactation cycle higher than the average of Vietnam. Besides that, HCM city is also developing dairy farming in the cooperatives model to save production cost from 5-10%.
Michael Boddington from Asian Agribusiness Consulting (AAC) has been involved in agribusiness in Asia since 2000. AAC has office both in Vietnam Ho Chi Minh City and China Beijing. So AAC has a thorough understanding of the Viet Nam and China dairy industry and produces up-to-date research reports on the market. We can offer insights on supply and demand trends and comments on the future structure of Asian agribusiness. If you would like to know more please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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