After entering WTO, Zhejiang has obvious international competitive advantage in pig production

Introduction: according to the analysis of the insiders, the production cost of Zhejiang pig is relatively low In the face of entering WTO, as long as the health quarantine and disease prevention and control monitoring are well solved, Zhejiang pig has a competitive advantage in the international market According to the survey of Zhejiang provincial urban survey team, pork is not only the main body of meat consumption of urban and rural consumers, but also the main body of meat production and traditional export products In recent years, due to the effective adjustment of the agricultural structure, the production of live pigs in Zhejiang Province has developed steadily, and the scale of pig breeding has maintained a good momentum of development In the first half of this year, the total number of live pigs on hand reached 11 million, an increase of 8% over the same period last year, and the production cost of live pigs is lower than the international level After joining the WTO, the production of live pigs in Zhejiang Province still has great competition in the international market Advantages In 1998, the production cost per kilogram of pork in Zhejiang was lower than that in the United States and the Netherlands The production cost per kilogram of pigs raised by Zhejiang farmers and professional households was 6.66 yuan and 6.78 yuan, while that of the United States and the Netherlands was 11 yuan and 8.77 yuan The actual cost of raising pigs in Zhejiang is 24% and 22.7% lower than that in the Netherlands, 60.5% and 61.6% lower than that in the United States The cost advantage is very prominent After China's accession to the WTO, the low cost of production factors and the reduction of feed prices are conducive to Zhejiang's competitive advantage in pig breeding On the one hand, although China's labor cost is on the rise in the 21st century, compared with developed countries, the advantage of cheap labor will not change for a long time; on the other hand, China promises to open the coarse grain market to a large extent, and the tariff on imported corn will be reduced to the quota tariff, with the import quota reaching 7.2 million tons Therefore, it is fed by foreign corn, soybean meal, fish meal and other low prices The cost of pig breeding in Zhejiang will be greatly reduced Therefore, from these two aspects, Zhejiang pig production will have obvious competitiveness in the international market as long as the problems of animal health quarantine and disease prevention and control monitoring are solved after China's accession to the WTO.