抄録
Since the volume of imported meat has largely increased, it has brought a great influence on the Japanese meat market. There has been a great deal of research on the importing country's viewpoint of what kind of impact Japan is facing now. Of special note is the study of how Japanese meat wholesale markets and agri-cooperative associations are responding to imported meat. In fact, the structural reorganization is also progressing in the pork market of Taiwan. So the purpose of this study was to find out the changes of structure and function of meat wholesale market in the reorganization process of Taiwan's pork market, and also make the factors clear by doing a case study of the livestock wholesale market of Pingtong prefecture. The livestock wholesale market of Pingtong prefecture was reformed in 1990 and is now operated jointly by the local government and multiple agri-cooperative associations. In the same year, Taiwan became the greatest supplier of imported pork to Japan. Presently, Pingtong is the biggest hog-breeding area, there are also 13 pork packers in this area and 6 others in neighboring prefecture who are exporting pork to Japan. In order to expand the exporting trade, the major packers have advanced in the integrative management of this business and set up their own slaughterhouse. That is to say, packers make contracts with hog breeders or set up a hog yard as a daughter company. Consequently, the livestock wholesale market of Pingtong prefecture has been changed in its position and operation as follows: (1) The rate of total hog consignment from pig breeders is going down. (2) Copartners of the agri-cooperative associations whose breeding of pigs is stopping their consignment of pigs to the shipping cooperative organization of the associations. (3) The slaughterhouse of the livestock wholesale market is losing its business. (4) The recurring profit of the livestock wholesale market has fallen into deficit. Therefore, the livestock wholesale market is considering some measures to meet the situation, e.g. to pay a certain consignment bounty to hog breeders, hire the slaughterhouse out in off moments, to be a pork packer supplying dressed meat to the domestic market, etc.
