The Development of Hog Production and Pork Export from Taiwan

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  • Yen Han-Ming
    Seminar of Agricultural Marketing, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University
  • Umeki Toshimi
    Seminar of Agricultural Marketing, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University
  • Kuroki Eiji
    Seminar of Agricultural Marketing, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University

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  • 台湾における豚肉生産と輸出の展開
  • タイワン ニ オケル ブタニク セイサン ト ユシュツ ノ テンカイ

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Pork is one of the major agricultural products of the hog industry of Taiwan. 1) The average size hog farms increased their production, however small sized farms gave up their hog production due to low productivity. 2) The hog farms are concentrated in the southern part of the country, due to relatively low wages of the workers and easy availability of feed grains. 3) Due to increase in per capita income, the demand for pork has also increased. Also due to significant increase in the number of hogs and less demand for pork in the domestic market the hog industry had to look out for an international market for export of its surplus pork. 4) Hong Kong is one of the major importer of Taiwan pork and the future possibility of export to the Hong Kong will diminish as it will merge with mainland China. 5) The export of frozen pork into Japanese market has increased rapidly since 1981. Special emphasis has been placed on the export of semi processed pork as on value added commodity in the Japanese market. 6) Marketing channel system is not yet developed for domestic purpose whereas in the case of export proper marketing channels are established. The marketing system of pork export has the following four characteristics: (1) the production of pork is on the large scale, (2) transportation is relatively small because producers are located in the Southern part of the country which is near to the port, (3) the price is decided on the basis of carcass, (4) Slaughter and processing is regulated by public law and is supervised by the government. 7) The maker of frozen pork for export has endeavoured in order to expand the share of Taiwan pork in the export market. In other words, the following improvements are done, (1) prepare the commodity which meets with the demand of the importer, (2) for safe supply in international market exporters have to get fresh pork from producers on contract basis, (3) quality control under the strict Government standards, (4) modern facility for cutting meat, (5) combination of different parts of meats by modern methods and deciding price on value added basis, (6) utilization of by-products without waste.

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