by Louis-Gilles Lalonde
and Takuo Sukigara
Food and Agriculture of the United Nations
November, 1997
4.1 Current situation of livestock production in China
4.2 A scenario for growth of livestock production toward 2005
Figure 1: Tour Map of LDPS2 in the "Welcome" sheet
Figure 6: The Feed Utilization Matrix section of Sheet "Resources"
Figure 10: Cattle systems logical flowchart
Figure 11: Poultry system logical flowchart
Figure 12: Systems specific LSUs of the various animal systems and classes
Figure 13: Sheet "Resources" of LDPS2
Figure 14: Feed Utilization Matrix (FUM) of LDPS2
Figure 15: Results for "Dairy cattle, System 1"
Figure 16: Manure production per class, dairy cattle, in tons per year
Figure 17: Flows of animals in the Herd Growth Routine
Figure 18: Input table for imports and exports of live animals
Figure 19: Herd Growth results sheet
Figure 20: Sensitivity analysis
Figure 21: Agro-ecological zones in China
Table 2: Animal systems of LDPS2
Table 3: Products per animal type
Table 4: Parameters for draught calculation
Table 6: Representative values of metabolic energy content
Table 7: Representative values of metabolic energy content
Table 8: Representative values of metabolic energy content
Table 9: Results per animal systems
Table 10: Solution to common problems
Table 11: Livestock production systems in China
Table 12: Demand for livestock products in 1995
Table 13: Inventory of yellow cattle (1000 heads)
Table 14: Inventory of sheep (1000 heads)
Table 15: Pork production in China in 1995(1000 heads)
Table 16: Chicken meat and egg production figured by LDPS2 in 1995
Table 17: Livestock production in 2005 and 1995
Table 18: Assumed improvements in productivity (maximum and minimum)
AGA | Animal Production and Health Division, Agriculture Department of FAO |
CF | Crude Fibre |
CME | metabolisable energy required for maintaining the breeding female for one year |
CP | Crude Protein |
DCP | Digestible Crude Protein |
DLP | Dermal Loss requirements of Protein |
DM | Dry matter |
EUP | Endogenous Urinary Requirements of protein |
FAO | Food and Agriculture Organization, Rome |
FAOSTAT | on-line/multilingual database of the Food and Agriculture Organization |
FUM | Feed Utilization Matrix |
GDP | Gross Domestic Product |
gr | gram |
ha | hectare |
IFPRI | International Food Policy Research Institute |
kg | kilogram |
LDPS | Livestock Development Planning System |
LSU, LSUs | Livestock Standard Unit(s) |
LW | average liveweight |
Mcal | Mega Calorie (energy) |
ME | Metabolisable Energy |
MEP | Metabolisable Energy for milk Production |
mill | millions |
MJ | Mega Joule (energy) |
OECF | Overseas Economic Cooperation Fund |
PFP | additional protein requirement for pregnant female breeder |
RAM | Random Access Memory |
RDP | Rumen Degradable Protein |
rLSU | Reference Livestock Standard Unit |
sLSU | System Specific Livestock Standard Unit |
TP | Tissue Protein retention |
UDP | rumen undegradable protein |
USDA | United States Department of Agriculture |
WAICENT | World Agricultural Information Centre of the Food and Agriculture Organization |