A Study of Demand and Supply of Raw Milk in Taiwan

• Main Authors: Wen-Chi Yeh, 葉玟其
• Other Authors: Chu-Ping Lo
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/97055748745953755618

碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 農業經濟學研究所 === 102 === Formula contaminated by melamine in 2008 brought about increasing death rates of infant. So the safety of food has increased gradually in recent years. People have more requests for food safety and pay much attention to labels on outer packing. At the beginning of this year (2014), many dairy factories had been found unqualified by the Council of Agriculture Executive Yuan. In view of this, people lost their confidence of dairy products. A part of consumers doubt that the portion of raw materials in milk did not conform to the norm of law, and milk may incorporate with comical additives. So this study analyzed Chinese National Standards and data between consumer market and dairy farming. Additionally, past documents indicated that the remaining milk and the reconstituted milk were serious over the years. The study analyzed this overall dairy industry and compared with overseas situations. This study used two hypothetical formulas for calculating data of dairy products in the past 20 years. And the consumer market of raw milk was far higher than the supply of dairy farms. The shortage of raw milk was 0% to 30% in the past 20 years, and it was 10% to 20% in the past 5 years. Besides, if this situation integrated with remaining milk, and the lack of raw milk would become more serious. The environment of growing milk cows was not suitable in Taiwan so that farms needed more cost, and this situation took the price of raw milk much higher than other countries. In order to build a harmony dairy industry, it needs consumer market and dairy factories to have coordination.