碩士 / 國立臺灣海洋大學 / 水產養殖學系 / 100 / In this study, the aquaculture production and aquafeed production data of Taiwan, China and other Asian countries were collected and analyzed. The competitive status of Taiwan’s aquafeed manufacturers was investigated and comparisons were conducted to understand the strength and weekness of Taiwan to China and Taiwan to global feed companies. This study will provide the important information for Taiwan fishery officials to propose the best development strategies for aquafeed industry。
Feed of eel, sea shrimp, milkfish, tilapia, sea bass, grouper and other marine fish are the important aquafeed in Taiwan. Due to the impact of shrimp virus in 1988, tiger shrimp related industries and the feed industry relocated rapidly to Southeast Asia and China, which indirectly led to the rapid establishment of the regional aquafeed industry. Shrimp and eel production showed rapid decline within 20 years. Although tilapia and marine fish feed increased, the total feed production can only be maintained at 400-500 thousand tons. Most of the aquafeed ingredient is dependent on imported sources, including fish meal which has a downward trend. The feed factories in Taiwan are toward specialization, large-scale pattern for the industry. The top ten ranking feed company’s production accounts for about 63% of total aquafeed production in Taiwan.
World aquaculture production in 2010 amounted 50.9 million tons. Aquaculture production in Asia accounts for about 90% of global production, mainly from China and Southeast Asia. China is the largest aquaculture producer in the world, and the industry as a whole continued to grow. Southeast Asia farming style is extensive. Aquafeed industry is a potential market in Southeast Asia because the percentage of farmer who use compound feed is low. Although Taiwan companies came into major aquaculture-producing countries of Southeast Asia's to invest early, but in future they will face the compitition of local manufacturers, multinational feed group and the international raw material prices rise. With the increasingly fierce market, how to use our own strengths will become the key to manufacturer’s profit.
The investigation results show that Taiwan's aquafeed market is saturated, and the average capacity utilization of all investigated company is only about 50%. Because of natural resources and policy constraints, the production is not easy to substantially increases in future. To face the challenge from China and other multinational feed groups, although we have the local advantage, however, it has to be very cautious for the Taiwanese government to change policy on permitting Chinese companies to build factories in Taiwan or importing feed from China, or implementing new environmental regulations, so that not to undermine the fragile stability of the market order in Taiwan. Taiwan feed company in Asia, except China still have competitive strength, but they must continue to enhance the ability of using cheap raw materials and operating in grobal.
From the survey results of this study, aquafeed manufacturers suggest that label of crude composition and ingredents informatiom is not applicable. Because of different product interest in manufacturers, so they have several different opinions about the regulation. Hence, there is an urging need to refer the specification of the feed label from international advanced countries. Other than that, involvement from feed industry, government and academic experts is needed to discuss how to amend the relevant specification.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TW/100NTOU5086109 |
| Date | January 2012 |
| Creators | Jin-Fu Liu, 劉勁甫 |
| Contributors | Chyng-Hwa Liou, 劉擎華 |
| Source Sets | National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan |
| Language | zh-TW |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Format | 187 |
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