Social economic aspects of egg production in China.

Abstract: China is the world's leading country in egg production. This chapter describes the historical development of the Chinese egg production, and introduces the current status of the Chinese egg industry with regard to geological distribution, structure of farms, breeding, economic parameters, feeds, market, waterfowl eggs, egg processing and egg trade. Total egg production was 27.41 million tons in 2009, with the average egg consumption close to 20 kg per capita. Sufficient and constant supply of feed grains will be the greatest constraint for the future development of Chinese egg production. In addition, pollution and biosecurity will also be major limiting factors.