The Importance of Farmer Association’s Maize Import on Taiwan’s Hog Industry
Date Issued
2011
Date
2011
Author(s)
Chang, Wen-Cheng
Abstract
The self-sufficient rate of Feed crops in very low in Taiwan. Most of the feeding crops are imported to match the demand for livestocks in Taiwan. More than 60 percents of the feed is coming from corn. Especially for the big pig, feed contains more than 75 percents of corn. Therefore, the corn market affects the development of livestock industry significantly. Since 2002, farmers unions started importing corn. Today, 11 years later, we can discuss its effectiveness. The purposes of this study are to showcase the current situation of corn purchasing and importing from pig farmers, to understand farmers’ willingness to participate in join-purchase, and to find out farmers’ perception toward the corn import. This study analyzes the members of R.O.C Federation of Swine Cooperatives. The results of this study show that, although most members agree that join-purchase is good to themselves, more than 34.13 percents of cooperatives do not have join-purchase program. Furthermore, there are more than 60 percents of farmers do not participate in join-purchase. Hence, there should have some room for further improvement. The results show that members in mid-scale and small cooperatives have relatively higher awareness of the importance of join-purchase compared to all members, and that members with the ages between 31 to 40 have the highest awareness and members with the ages under 30 have the second highest awareness. These members are going to be the majority of cooperatives in the future. The results of this study also show that members who participate in meetings or training in the cooperatives within 1 year have relatively higher awareness compared to others who don’t. Therefore, it is important to deliver the knowledge of join-purchase through training before we put them into actions.
Subjects
join-purchase of corn
cooperatives
basis
future price
Type
thesis
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