Chapter 76 Dairy Industry
The development of dairy farms never happens overnight.
Due to the long-term isolation, my country's breeding technology for high-quality and high-yielding dairy cows is generally more than 20 years behind the world's leading level.
The number of dairy cows is small, the breed is poor, and the yield per unit area is low.
Most of the more than 2,000 dairy companies across the country have not established their own milk production bases.
However, the domestic economic development situation has been getting better and better in recent years, and the national consumption power and demand for dairy products are also growing rapidly.
In 2001, the Ministry of Agriculture issued the "Opinions on Accelerating the Development of Animal Husbandry", which significantly reduced the import tariff of dairy cows. In addition, there was a series of project financial support.
Since then, my country has set off a new wave of imported dairy cows.
All parts of the country are importing dairy cows on a large scale, usually in units of thousands and tens of thousands, with a fierce momentum.
Thinking of this, Guo Yang asked curiously: "Secretary Chen, the country's current policies are so good, so you have no plans to import dairy cows in the past two years?"
Secretary Chen narrowed his eyes and said, "Why, Alfalfa has a plan to import cows?"
Guo Yang was not in a hurry to deny it.
Seeing him like this, Secretary Chen sighed, "The domestic import of cows has been crazy in the past two years. The market is good and local governments, for the sake of political performance, have given subsidies and loan interest discounts to stimulate farmers and herdsmen to buy cattle. ."
"Oh? What do you say?" Guo Yang also wants to learn some inside information about the industry through animal husbandry companies.
“The market is so crazy that before this year is over, the isolation farm business for imported dairy cows has already been queued up until the end of next year.”
Speaking of this, Secretary Chen glanced at Guo Yang.
“So even if Alfalfa Agriculture and Animal Husbandry wants to import dairy cows, they will have to wait in line for a year.”
“And this year and next year, the Ministry of Agriculture has approved the import of dairy cows from New Zealand and Australia. The number of imported dairy cows exceeds 110,000.”
“But according to the information we have, Australia has a total of 1.8 million dairy cows, but only 500,000 are first-class premium breeds, and most of them are imported into my country. Category 2 and Category 3. "
"In order to make money, some companies import cows from abroad at high prices, but in the end they introduce a lot of inferior cows, some of which are bought in whole groups, and they have to face adaptability problems after they come in. ”
"Some cattle dealers even resort to fraud and fake pedigrees. The risk of using such cattle as breeding cattle is very high and will mess up the national dairy breeding system."
Looking at Secretary Chen's worried look, Guo Yang also We know that the domestic dairy industry has made great strides in development in the past two years.
However, there are many hidden worries behind the prosperity. For example, milk dumping incidents occur frequently in the south.
Due to limited purchases by local dairy companies, dairy farmers in Hubei Province poured more than 50,000 kilograms of spoiled milk into farmland; Jinling dairy cows poured fresh milk rejected by milk stations into fish ponds; Huaxi Dairy in Sichuan Province poured white milk into fish ponds; Huahua's milk was poured into the sewer in tons and tons.
Guo Yang continued to test and said: "If Hutubi does not import dairy cows in the past two years, the status of the largest breeding cattle farm in the northwest will be worrying."
Secretary Chen said with a smile: "Kutubi also has plans to import cows. The Ministry of Agriculture has approved us to import 3,500 Holstein cows."
"The company has also sent professional technicians to follow the import agents abroad. After checking each cow, only 10 out of 100 cows can be selected, and they need to be screened again before shipment. "
"In addition, we will use the existing high-yield dairy cows next year. Produce 1,800 high-quality embryos of high-yielding cows, and directly transplant them into cows raised by farmers through embryonic bioengineering technology, producing 500-600 high-yielding cows.”
Guo Yang was surprised, he had visited Hutubi. embryo production base, but can this be applied?
“Hutubi has completely mastered embryonic bioengineering technology???”
Secretary Chen's calm face showed a proud look, "We started this research in 1988! More than ten years of hard work should bear fruit."
Guo Yang also calmed down and thought to himself , after all, it is recommended by the Ministry of Agriculture, so it is normal to have some.
But he also kept in mind that the scope of cooperation with Hutubi might need to be expanded.
"Secretary Chen, can you disclose the price of imported cows from New Zealand and Australia?"
Chen Ting hesitated for a while, but thinking of the capital strength of Alfalfa Agriculture and Animal Husbandry, he decided Tell the truth.
"In the early days of dairy cow importation, the price of young cattle with calves over 18 months old in New Zealand and Australia was just over US$300, but now it has risen to nearly US$500 per head, and the domestic CIF price has also reached US$1,100."
Guo Yang did the math and felt that although the price was high, it seemed acceptable.
But he saw Secretary Chen shake his head and said rather uncomfortably: "But when the imported cattle reach the hands of farmers, they will cost at least 18,000 to 20,000 yuan."
Guo Yang was also stunned. The price difference is a bit outrageous!
This is directly doubled!
Guo Yang looked at Secretary Chen suspiciously, but he only shook his head.
“No one can save the cost of some intermediate links. Moreover, Hutubi strictly controls the quality, and the price will not be much cheaper.”
“It is only the farmers who bear it. The price is expensive, but the quality is also very questionable.”
“The farmers introduced the cattle not for breeding, but for production. One cow has six litters and does not produce much milk. , the efficiency is very low, the cattle will be eliminated after six or seven years, and the cost cannot be recovered.”
"Is the moon in foreign countries really rounder than in China?"
"There are problems with imported cows, and the nitrite in imported American milk powder exceeds the standard by more than three times."
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After leaving Hutubi, Guo Yang led the team to Mongolia Province without stopping.
Bameng Farm Reclamation is a unique enterprise focusing on agriculture, animal husbandry and fishery.
Its predecessor was an agriculture, forestry, pasture, and labor reform farm in the 1950s.
With the passage of time, like the agricultural reclamation in Xinjiang Province, Heilongjiang Province, Yun Province, Ning Province and other places, it has become a backbone of the frontier stabilization and construction of the frontier.
When Guo Yang and others arrived here, they also negotiated a purchase agreement with Bameng Farm Reclamation for 1,000 dairy cattle breeding stock next year.
Moreover, Bameng Farm Reclamation is in the period of management system reform, and the newly appointed leadership team has vigorously implemented a series of policies.
At the same time, BAM has also signed a contract with Australia to import 2,000 cows, and technical staff have gone abroad to select cows.
The second batch of import plans has also been reported to the Ministry of Agriculture.
As for BAM’s funding sources, in addition to the counterpart support from its own and professional banks.
Guo Yang also learned from the news spread by farmers that Bameng Farm Reclamation has signed dairy loan agreements with Mengniu Company and Huiyuan Beverage.
Mengniu Company promised Bameng Farm Reclamation to provide a guaranteed loan of 6,000-8,000 yuan per cow.
Although the two have different purposes, one is to buy cattle and the other is to find milk sources.
But Alfalfa Agriculture and Animal Husbandry and Mengniu Dairy are on track at this moment.
From its establishment in July 1999 to 2002, in just three years, Mengniu Dairy’s ranking among dairy companies nationwide rose from 1,116th to 4th.
At this time, Mengniu’s annual sales reached 2 billion, but there was still a large gap between the sales of more than 5 billion for the top two dairy brands Yili and Guangming.
At this time, the three giants of Huaxia Dairy are still Sanyuan in Beijing, Yili in Mongolia, and Guangming in Magic City.
With decades of history and geographical advantages, Jingcheng Sanyuan has gained irrefutable dominance, with over 70% of the local market share, making it difficult for challengers to break through.
Magic City Guangming occupies the largest urban consumer group in China, and in 2001 it also ranked first in the domestic dairy industry rankings.
Compared with Guangming, the capital city, and Sanyuan, the capital city, Yili, which comes from Mongolia Province, does not have a market with tens of millions of people to support it.
This determines that Yili must fight in the north and south from the beginning, and there is no other choice.
With the support of the capital market, Yili has become the industry leader in the field of liquid milk after several years of hard work.
Just as the three giants in the dairy industry were fighting for market share, no one expected that New Hope Group, a subsidiary of the feed king, also announced that it would join the battle.
In addition, second-tier brands such as Wahaha, VV Group, Guangdong Yantang, Wushi Zhiyou, Shenzhen Chenguang and other local brands are more focused on highlighting their own personalities and differences in order to stay relevant.
For example, Sanlu’s milk powder ranks first in the country.
There are nearly 2,000 domestic dairy companies, but less than 10% of them actually have their own milk sources.
Among them, Mengniu is a typical representative of "light on upstream milk source construction and emphasis on terminal marketing".
Compared with them, Alfalfa Agriculture and Animal Husbandry is still a toddling baby.
(End of this chapter)