Beef Cattle Development Project

Agriteam assisted the World Bank and Chinese provincial bureaus of animal husbandry in project identification, pre-appraisal and appraisal of a beef project to be implemented in Hebei, Shaanxi, Henan and Anhui provinces. We identified opportunities and constraints for beef industry development and assessed the technical and economic viability of the proposed projects.

We investigated small-scale beef production as a means of income generation and poverty alleviation in rural areas; assessed technologies, marketing methods and contracting systems with regard to their impact on household incomes and risk levels; investigated the role of women in beef production; determined the needs for micro-credit and investigated modes of micro-credit and revolving funds operated by the Women's Federation and other organizations.

The final project report addressed government policy, current and projected beef demand, beef and by-product processing, cattle production, financing and risk management, poverty alleviation and environmental protection.