抄録
This study examined the circulation structure and the transaction form of raw milk, through a survey of participants in the raw milk marketing chain, focusing on dairy manufacturer A in Kunming, the capital of Yunnan Province in China. Under the background of rapid development of China's dairy industry in recent decades, however, some problems appeared in the circulation structure, most notably the instability of raw milk prices caused by unbalanced supply and demand and an accumulation of capital that expanded the market power of major manufactures, which accelerated the monopolization in not only the market of dairy products but also the market of raw milk. Yunnan Province is an area set for major agricultural producers due to its superior requirements of livestock farming and raw milk production. Based on this situation, a stable, sustained and coordinated development of local dairy industry in Yunnan Province is expected. Manufacturer A is one of the largest local dairy companies in the area. Although manufacture A owns specialized farms in order to supply raw milk, its raw milk source mainly comes from organizations of small-scale dairy farmers called Specialized Farmers Cooperatives, which is, as a conclusion, playing an extremely important role in keeping up a steady growth of the local dairy industry in Yunnan Province.
