Market Performance Of Meat Sheep And Goat Industry In China

With the continuously rapid development of national economy and the increasing of people's living standard,China's meat sheep and goat production has entered a totally new development period,the quantity of sheep and goat breeding,the sheep and goat production and the output of meat sheep and goat industry have steadily increased,the status of meat sheep and goat industry has been improved in the animal husbandry;and people's food consumption structure is being optimized,under the background of increasing consumption of animal foods,which has injected new impetus into meat sheep and goat industry.However,there are also series of challenge in the process of meat sheep and goat industries' development,such as the increasing of meat sheep and goat production costs in the context of resource and environmental constraints,the slow growth of meat sheep and goat production,continuously rising and fall of mutton prices,improved varieties,the slow degree of improved varieties,economies of scale and technical efficiency,the irrational structure,which have caused the imbalance of domestic meat sheep and goat supply and demand and other issues.Therefore,how to ensure a healthy and sustainable development of meat sheep and goat industry in the future,and to enhance the overall performance of meat sheep and goat industry have become a hot topic of concern.Based on the above background,this paper analyzes the market performance of meat sheep and goat industry,focusing on the economic performance,quality performance and mutton price changes,the results can provide some evidence for our government in order to formulate more scientific and reasonable development policy of meat sheep and goat industry.This paper,based on the theory of industrial organization,economic efficiency theory,inforrmation asymmetry theory,farmer behavior theory and the theory of agricultural product price formation,fluctuation and transfer,builds the analysis structure of China's meat sheep and goat industry market performance research.Combined the viewpoint of "structuralism" with "performanceism",this paper uses the dynamic interactive analysis method instead of the static one-way analysis method which means "market structure-market behavior-market performance",and the analysis of characteristics of macro-sheep and goat production structure as the starting point,then analyze the meat sheep and goat production behavior from the production perspective,involving the input and output of macro-level sheep and goat production,economic efficiency and micro-level sheep and goat production economic efficiency and quality effects,also combined with the changes of mutton market prices,and then evaluate the meat sheep and goat industrial performance comprehensively,finally this paper provide some corresponding policy suggestions based on the results.This paper mainly draws the following conclusions:(1)the overall development momentum of meat sheep and goat industry performs well.The basic characteristics of meat sheep and goat industry has been improved,the production layout tends to be more reasonable,the scale structure is continuously optimized,and meat sheep and goat industry has become an important branch industry in China's animal husbandry industries;(2)The cost and income meat sheep and goat production are both increasing rapidly,but there are some differences in the trend changes of main factors' productivity,in which the increase of production cost mainly comes from the increase of material and service cost and the labor cost;(3)The overall efficiency of meat sheep and goat production technology has been significantly improved,but the technical efficiency loss and regional difference still exist;(4)The total factor productivity(TFP)of meat sheep and goat production tends to be stable in the fluctuated condition,and there is an upward trend in recent years,also the growth of TFP in main producing provinces is limited;(5)The economic efficiency of farmers' meat sheep and goat production needs to be further improved,and the loss of allocation efficiency is more prominent than that of technical efficiency;(6)The quality of farmers' meat sheep and goat production is determined by the quality control behavior of meat sheep and goat production,the establishment of breeding system and the changes of breeding mode,and the standardized production is the key to improve the quality of meat sheep and goat production;(7)The mutton price is affected by the increase of domestic demand,the adjustment of the grassland policy,sudden disasters and epidemic situation,also the impact of international market,whose overall performance is fluctuating,and the differences among regions are significant,and price changes are seasonal and volatile with clusters obviously;(8)The vertical correlation effect of mutton price is significant,and the main producing areas of cross-market mutton price integration are being gradually strengthened.The characteristics and possible innovations are as follows:(1)This paper uses a different estimation method to calculate the technical efficiency and TFP of meat sheep and goat production at the macro level,which makes the results more accurate and reliable;(2)The micro data is more representative for calculating the economic efficiency of meat sheep and goat production,quality evaluation of the effect and mutton market price fluctuations,which leads the conclusions more closer to the reality;(3)In order to analyze the transmission and integration of mutton prices,this paper studies from the two dimensions,vertical industry chain and horizontal regional market,which makes the research more in-depth comprehensive.