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Headlines£ºGarlic price and housing price, which is crazier?

In recent years, garlic price is probably rising mostly rapid besides housing price. It¡¯s lately reported that garlic price in Henan province is 100 times of the price in 2 years ago. What on earth does drive the market crazy?

Garlic becomes a media focus in recent due to constantly rising price. The price has kept going up rapidly since April 2009. BOABC believes it is driven by five factors.Firstly, in the second half of 2007 to April 2009, Chinese garlic price stayed at a low level. Particularly in 2008, garlic wholesale price fell to RMB 1 per kilo. And procurement price was reported to drop to several cents per kilo. Such a low price made farmers give up planting garlic that causes garlic planting area shrinking and yield reducing; Secondly...


China¡¯s palm oil market and prediction

In recent years, with the rapid development of China's food manufacturing industry, China's demand for palm oil keeps greatly increasing. Before the year of 2005/2006 (October 2005 to September 2006), palm oil consumption ranked third in all vegetable oil varieties in China (after soybean oil and rapeseed oil). However, it has become the second, only next to soybean oil. The annual consumption of palm oil accounts for more than 25% of the total consumption of vegetable oil in China...


The influence of newly released state dairy safety

In January to February 2010, the first national food safety standards review committee reviewed 66 articles of dairy safety standard, and the Ministry of Health published the new dairy safety standard on 26th March 2010. The dairy safety standard is more scientific, nearly solves problems with the current standards and forms a unified national dairy safety system. As a compulsory standard, it will greatly impact on the future development of Chinese dairy industry...



Ministry of Commerce re-investigate EU potato starch
On April 19th, 2010, Ministry of Commerce announced No.22 Notice 2010. According to the notice, MOC decides to re-investigate dump of EU potato starch and the degree of dump. The investigated products are grouped in Tariff Code 11081300 of Import and Export of People¡¯s Republic of China...

Coca Cola invests 900 million yuan to set up largest production base in China
Coca Cola has been breaking its record constantly. After investing 600 million yuan respectively in Sanshui and Wuhan, it invested 900 million in Luohe, Henan in April for the largest production center in China. According to BOABC, Coca Cola aims at the whole market in the North by setting up a plant in Luohe...

Comparison of domestic and international sugar prices in April 2010

The international price kept on falling in April 2010. The futures price of 11# raw sugar for delivery in the months to come had been 16.07 US cents/pound till April 22nd, down 1.77 US cents/pound from same period the previous month. The sharp decline of international price was due to the continual growth...

The Ministry of Health published the fourth batch of substances which maybe illegally used in food products
The Ministry of Health has recently published the fourth batch of substances that may be illegally used in food products, including ¦Â-excitants, nitrofuran, zeranol, antibiotics, tranquilizers, optical bleaching agents, industrial magnesium chloride, aluminum phosphide, acid orange II...

64.7% of collective woodlands have completed reforms and confirmations of ownership all over the country
As of the end of 2009, China has completed reforms and confirmations of ownership on 1.77 billion mu of woodlands, which is 64.7% of the total area of 2.737 billion mu collective woodlands. 59,540 thousand certificates have been issued all over the country covering a total area of 1.4 billion mu...

Yarn producers¡¯ profit margin in April

Yarn producers enjoyed a good profit in April thanks to strong market demand. Cotton price averaged RMB6,265/MT in April, up 4.68% over the month before and 32.52% over the same period of last year. Cotton yarn price recorded RMB24,780/MT (40-count) and RMB23,940/MT (32-count) in April...


Investment in bio-pesticide industry increase rapidly

In the beginning of 2010, investment in pesticide slid, however its sub-industry, bio-pesticide saw a large increase, and the programs also increased substantially.In the first 2 months of 2010, total investment in pesticide industry hit 1.63b Yuan, down 3.0%, accounting for merely 9.6% of planned...


More US soyoil may be imported
It is learned from a trading company that the Chinese government is considering lifting trade barriers to US soyoil. The existing policy requires that US soyoil suppliers provide a crop quarantine certificate. BOABC presumes that the removal of the barriers to US soyoil aims to allow more US soyoil to come...

China to impose anti-subsidy duties on US broilers

The Ministry of Commerce decided to levy anti-subsidy duties of 3.8% - 11.2% of import value on US broilers from April 30. The companies that did not respond to the Chinese government¡¯s investigation would be subject to a duty rate of 31.4%.China imports about 700,000 MT broiler...

key words: garlic, price rise, palm oil, infant formula milk powder, urea, Chinese state dairy safety standard
High tariff, inadequate raw material supply, serious production surplus, furious market competition¡­Where is Chinese urea industry heading? Mr. Chen Shuwei, the chief analyst of BOABC is cracking the puzzle...

Just in ten years, Chinese urea production scale expands quite dramatically. Before 2000, China was a urea importing country facing insufficient supply in market. Meanwhile, imported products posed pressure on domestic manufacturers. However, Chinese urea industry has expanded rapidly since 2003 and finally given rise to production surplus and then China became a urea exporting country...



China¡¯s infant formula milk powder market witnessed a fast growth from 2000-2009 thanks to various driving forces, and the market capacity rose from 106,000 tons in 2000 to 630,000 tons in 2009, an average annual growth as high as 22.90%.The consumption level of infant formula milk powder in China directly relates to the income of residents. Provincial capitals and coastal developed regions are the main...



China's top three dairy companies, namely, China Mengniu Dairy, Yili Group and Bright Dairy have all re-versed their losses in 2008 into prof-its in 2009, having dissipated the clouds of the melamine scandal which broke out in 2008 (see no 118 page 5-7). Mengniu, based in Inner Mongo-lia, reported a net profit of RMB 1.1bn in 2009, as compared to a net loss of RMB 950m in 2008. Its turn-over rose 8% to RMB 26bn in 2009. Yili, also based in Inner Mongolia, earned a net profit of RMB 648m in 2009, reversing a huge loss of RMB 1.7bn in 2009. Its turnover jumped 12% to RMB 24bn last year. Shanghai-based Bright Dairy, the smallest of the top three dairy firms, posted a net profit of RMB 122m in 2009, reversing a net loss of RMB 286m in 2008. "Besides the fading negative im-pact of the melamine scandal, the low prices of raw milk was also a big contributor to the dairy companies' profits last year," explains Chen Lianfang, a dairy expert in Beijing Orient Agribusiness Consultant...


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3.Research Report on Application of D70 & D90 in the Market of Formula Milk Powder for Infants in China

4.Research Report of China's Potash Industry, 2010-2020

5.Special Research Report on China's Coffee Beverage Market, 2010

6.Special Research Report on China's Tomato Paste Market


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