L'industrie française de l'alimentation du bétail

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The French industry of animal feeding stuffs. The French production of animal feeding stuffs has risen from 600 000 tons in 1950 up to more than 13 000 000 tons in 1978. This notable progress was first due to the revolution in poultry farming, then to the great changes in pig breeding. This industry of animal feeding stuffs uses about 15 % of the cereals harvested in France, but most of the proteins — and soya-bean more particularly — have to be imported. Launched at the start by some flour-millers who wanted to valorize their by-products, this industry has rapidly concentrated. Today, it is dominated by a few big groups specialized in animal feeding stuffs, among which some subsidiaries of multinational companies. As for the small or medium manufacturer s, they are, for the most part, closely tied up with service firms that supply them with premix and grant each of them a concession area. For their part, cooperatives control 30 % of the production. The location was carried out in connection with the consumption market. Britanny alone produces one-third of animal feeding-stuffs. If the first factories were built near flour-mills, a second generation was set up after taking industrial requirements into account (industrial areas, or possibility of a junction with a railway line).

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