How to Improve the Quality of Raw Milk in China

DOI

10.2991/emim-16.2016.170How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Raw Milk; Techniques Support; Quality Improvement; Evolutionarily Stable Strategy

Abstract

At present, raw milk is mainly supplied by smallholder dairy farmers or small-scale feeding bases in China. Considering liquid characteristics of raw milk and its current acquisition mode, the paper analyzes the feasibility of quality improvement cooperation between the dairy farmers and processing companies by the means of Multi-groups replicator dynamics model, supposing the processing companies provide techniques support to dairy farmers for the quality improvement of raw milk. This paper explores the strategy choices of dairy farmers and processing companies, and also investigates the main factors of cooperation between the two groups. Results show that the two groups’ strategic choices are not only affected by the incomes change caused by quality improvement of raw milk, but also influenced by the R&D costs or execution costs of the techniques. Finally, we present some suggestion to promote the cooperation between the two groups.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Li Zhang
AU  - Yunxian Hou
AU  - Chang Liu
AU  - Wenzhuo Liang
PY  - 2016/04
DA  - 2016/04
TI  - How to Improve the Quality of Raw Milk in China
BT  - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Electronic, Mechanical, Information and Management Society
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 826
EP  - 831
SN  - 2352-538X
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/emim-16.2016.170
DO  - 10.2991/emim-16.2016.170
ID  - Zhang2016/04
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