China Dairy Association: Dairy industry development is at its best in history

“The huge demand for dairy products in the domestic market is a constant driving force for the sustained and healthy development of the dairy industry,” Gu Hejiu, vice president and secretary general of the China Dairy Association, said in an interview with reporters. “After rectification, China’s dairy industry has Toward the track of sustained healthy development, the speed of the transformation of traditional dairy industry to modern dairy industry has accelerated, and the pattern of modern dairy industry has taken shape. The overall quality of the dairy industry has been continuously improved, the quality of dairy products has been significantly improved, and the market supply and demand are booming. Development is currently in the best period of history.” The achievement of such remarkable achievements has benefited from the strong support of national policies, the intensive introduction of laws and standards, and the significant increase in the level of supervision.

Regulatory strict elimination of backwardness

The milk station is the intermediate link between dairy farming and dairy processing. Strengthening milk station supervision will help ensure the quality of the milk source. In the past, there was no restriction on the main body of the milk station. Even if there was a standard, the supervision was not strict, resulting in a large number of milk station equipment lagging behind, non-standard operation, and even adulteration counterfeiting, resulting in potential safety risks for the dairy industry. According to Valley inheritance, after the milk powder incident for infants and children, the state carried out the rectification of the milk station, eliminated nearly 7,000 unqualified milk stations, and the reduction rate was 34%. At present, 13,000 milk stations are all included in the scope of routine inspections, achieving Milk station supervision full coverage.

The clean-up milk stations were all operated by three types of legal entities: dairy product manufacturers, dairy farms, and dairy farmer cooperatives, all of which are legally licensed, and facilities, management methods, and inspection methods have all improved significantly. At the same time, raw milk transportation has also been standardized, and more than 8,000 transport vehicles have been transported with certificates.

"Quality is the lifeline of the development of the dairy industry." Valley inheritance said. In 2012, 21,000 batches of fresh milk samples sampled were all qualified for physicochemical indicators such as protein and fat, melamine all met the national regulations for limited management, chromium, lead and other indicators all met the national standard requirements, and no leather hydrolysates were detected. Illegal additives. It can be said that China's raw milk quality is in good condition and has significantly improved than before.

After rectification, a group of small enterprises and small workshops with backward production conditions and poor detection capacity were rapidly eliminated. Gu Duan said, “This allowed dairy companies to further optimize their production capacity and product mix. In 2012, there were 649 dairy enterprises in the country, compared with 2008. It will be reduced by more than half a year. Dairy companies must not only strictly control the quality of milk coming into the factory, but also strictly control the quality of manufactured milk products. The indicators and frequency of detection are unprecedented, so the quality and safety of dairy products can be trusted."

Standardized scale breeding speeds up

Scale is the only way for the development of the dairy industry. Gu Duan said that upgrading the scale will help reduce costs, improve efficiency, and enhance technological upgrading. Product quality will be more secure. As of last year, the proportion of China's 100 or more large-scale aquaculture projects reached 35%. Although there is still a certain gap between the scale of aquaculture in developed countries, it has increased by 15.5 percentage points compared with five years ago. This trend continues.

"On the one hand, national policy support is in place. A cumulative investment of 2.2 billion yuan is used to subsidize the expansion of more than 3,000 dairy farms, and the infrastructure for dairy farming is significantly improved; on the other hand, small-scale retail farming has no ability to feed feeds and scientific breeding. Technology, resulting in less milk production, low quality, not selling a good price, and ultimately leading to poor aquaculture efficiency, so speed up the exit.” Valley inheritance analysis.

It is worth noting that the progress of the construction of milk source bases in China has been markedly accelerated and the proportion of self-owned milk sources controlled by dairy companies has greatly improved. According to research, 100 major milk products enterprises in the country have achieved 20% of the total milk supply through self-constructed, controlled, and equity-controlled milk sources.

What are the benefits of dairy companies' increased milk supply? Gu Inheritance said that this is a good development trend. Dairy companies have a completely controlled milk source with more quantity and quality, which fundamentally guarantees the quality and safety of dairy products. In addition, the increase in self-owned milk sources shows that dairy companies have turned their attention to the construction of the milk source base. In the past, dairy companies did not attach importance to the construction of their own dairy bases. It was difficult to completely control the quantity and quality of milk sources by relying solely on contracts for pure trading relationships. The process of building a milk source base has been accelerated. Thanks to the support of national policies, the support of the national milk source base will be greater in the future.

Modern dairy industry integration is a trend

According to Valley inheritance, one of the measures to build a modern dairy industry is to achieve industrial integration. Industrial integration means to link the forage planting, dairy farming, dairy product processing, and dairy product sales together through a reasonable interest linkage mechanism to form a combination of benefit sharing and risk sharing.

At present, some domestic dairy groups have already tasted sweetness in the integration construction and achieved very good results. Some groups have cultivated their own grass, raised cattle, processed and sold, and achieved complete integration. Some groups have integrated within the system. There are some grass, some cattle, some processing and sales within the system. However, many aquaculture and processing companies are still independent bodies lacking benefit linkages. The degree of integration is very low and there is still a long way to go to achieve integration. However, integration is the direction of the development of the dairy industry and we must seek ways to accelerate development.

In 2012, in order to promote grass and livestock support, the state launched the "Reinvigorating the Dairy Industry Development Initiative," and arranged 525 million yuan each year to build a high-quality forage grass base. Many aquaculture companies seized the opportunity to support the cultivation of a certain number of crickets and speed up the construction of oneness. "Cattle-growing planting quail, dairy cows urine can be returned to the field, both to solve the pollution, but also save fertilizer costs." Valley inheritance said.