Gale Jr., H. Frederick; Hu, Dinghuan - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009
China’s melamine milk adulteration crisis highlights the challenges that arise as large well-capitalized companies … procure raw materials from a diffused supply chain of scattered small farmers and milk collection stations. As milk prices … climbed sharply in 2007 and companies branched out into new territories, intense competition for raw milk supplies …