Year of publication 1998

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Author HENNING STEINFELD;Animal Production and Health Division

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Product type Book (stand-alone)

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Edition 1

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Synopsis (short abstract) Industrial production of pork, poultry and (feedlot) beef and mutton is the fastest growing form of animal production. In 1996, it provided more than half the global pork and poultry (broiler) production and 10 percent of the beef and mutton production. This represented 43 percent of the total global meat production, up from 37 percent in 1991-93. Moreover, it provided more than two-thirds of the global egg supply. Geographically, the industrialized countries dominate industrial pig and poultry production accounting for 52 percent of the global industrial pork production and 58 percent of the poultry production. Asia contributes 31 percent of the world's pork production (Sere and Steinfeld, 1996). Industrial ruminant production is concentrated in Eastern Europe, the ex-Soviet Union and in the OECD countries. Typical examples are large-scale feedlots in the USA and in the formally centrally planned economies. Industrial sheep feedlots are found in the Near East, North Africa and th e USA. The industrial production system is open both in physical and economic terms. It depends on outside supply of feed, energy and other inputs. Technology, capital and infrastructure requirements are based on large economies of scale and, because of this, production efficiency is high in terms of output per unit of feed or per man-hour, less so when measured in terms of energy units. Yet as the world's main provider of eggs, poultry meat and pork at competitive prices, it meets most of the escalating demands for low cost animal products in rapidly growing urban centres of the developing world.

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Language English

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