December 8, 2005
Bulletin #99

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Bulletin #99

"Ostrich Industry Analysis - Problems and Solutions"

By: Fiona Benson, Blue Mountain International
By: Daryl Holle, Blue Mountain Feeds

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Bulletin #99

Ostrich Industry Analysis - Problems and Solutions!

Mr. Yang Haomin, president of IKO Ostrich Company in China and organiser of the conference held in China in March 2004 has recently visited a number of countries and attended several International conferences. Mr. Yang Haomin's aim was to gain a clearer understanding of our industry. He submitted a full report of his findings to the World Ostrich Association WOA. The full report is available to members of the WOA. http://www.world-ostrich.org

These are the major factors reported:
 - Need for International Cooperation
 - Lack of Supply
 - How to Decrease Costs of Production
 - How to Improve Quality of Products
  
 For those who have followed our bulletins over the years, I think every one of those points will sound very familiar - we have continually discussed them. We have also offered solutions.

 Some quotes from Mr. Yang Haomin's report:
 Quote: He impelled on the basis of mutual benefit all the world's ostrich breeding enterprises to be united, exchanging techniques, developing market and making full use of advantages.

This congress stressed market, trade, cooperation, the union as well as mutual benefits; prospected development of world ostrich industry; analyzed regional advantages of developing ostrich industry and emphasized information communication and importance of the union. The conference with strategy significance was a distinguished one in the history of Asian and East European ostrich industry. End quote

Quote: Now they stop because of lack of supply and high price. End quote

Quote: From the above it can be concluded that currently, two main markets for skin and meat have opened up, which are in urgent need of large supply of goods. End quote
  
Quote: The current problem exists in Chinese market is high demand and low supply. End quote
  
Quote: In addition, the way to decrease the cost of managing, breeding, processing and marketing, combined with improvement in the quality of the products need to be tackled as a matter of urgency. End quote

The report concluded:
Quote:
Matter of uniting ostrich industry
Union of ostrich industry is a necessity. Ostrich industry should be impelled in different way at different levels, which includes union of every ostrich association, union of every ostrich country, union of regions and union of enterprises. Only by union can ostrich industry realize the unification of breed, management, process, and brand and achieve intensivism, industrialism, standardization and commercialization. End Quote
 
Blue Mountain have not only been encouraging better communication between all sectors of our fledgling industry for many years, they have also been providing the mechanism to achieve this on an International level. In addition Blue Mountain have been publishing results of studies, trials and comparisons, papers presented at International conferences and regular bulletins covering nutrition, management and industry information that is freely available to the
industry.

We have consolidated that information into two documents:
 
1. Proving the Untapped Production and Profit Potential of Ostrich

2. Economics and Commercialisation of Ostrich Production
 
Both are available as downloads by clicking on the following links:

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