July 28, 2006

China's feed output likely to reach 95 million tonnes by 2010

China's output of compound feed is expected to reach 95 million tonnes by the end of the "11th Five-Year Programme" period in 2010, vice minister of agriculture Zhang Baowen said on Wednesday (July 26).

Concentrated feed is expected to reach 30 million tonnes while premix feed is expected to reach 6 million tonnes, Zhang revealed while addressing the national work conference on feed.

China's total feed output hit 107 million tonnes in 2005. The figure puts China as the third largest feed producer in the world, accounting for one-eighth of the world's total output.

In 2005, the output value of the feed industry reached RMB 274.2 billion (US$34.3 billion).

China had a total of 157 feed enterprises with annual output of over 100,000 tonnes in 2005. The top 10 producers' combined output of 25.02 million tonnes accounts for 23 percent of the country's total.

China's meat output has increased 26.4 percent to 77.4 million tonnes on-year while its egg industry grew by 28.4 percent to 28.8 million tonnes on-year.

Milk output achieved the most astonishing growth, doubling to 28.6 million tonnes in a year.

The animal husbandry, whose output value exceeded RMB 1.3 trillion this year, is growing 10 percent on-year and accounts for 35 percent of the total agricultural output value of China.