STRUCTURE OF ANIMAL AGRICULTURE in China
The structure of animal agriculture in China has been changing a lot. The proportion of pork has been undergoing a process of uprising and dropping and finally maintains at roughly 66% in 2002. After forty year’s fluctuation, the proportion of pork went back to the same states as that of 1962. In the contrast, proportion of poultry meat went into the opposite direction from dropping to uprising while the ratio is 19.33% in 2002 that is still lower than that of 1962. By the meantime, ratio of beef and mutton has been going upward, but still far below that of pork and poultry meat. In 2002, both ratios were still below 10% respectively. Total production of pork, poultry meat, mutton and beef account for 98 % of the total of meat production in 2003


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