the local economy. Our study estimates the preference weights that local consumers assign to some milk attributes … including local origin and the influence on choice of a local brand of milk, which is traded by a local cooperative of producers … in Umbria (Italy). Several preference segments are found amongst fresh and UHT milk buyers by employing a Latent Class …

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 …

The analysis of the 2009 Uganda National panel Survey (UNPS) collected by the UBoS shows that milk production from … smallholder farm units was 1 billion litres, and about 52 percent (524 million litres) joined the second level of the milk value … chain – and of which 72 percent was marketed in unprocessed form to consumers. High informality in milk marketing can be …

The aim of this article was to evaluate the consumption of milk and milk products by the students of the University of … show that 40% of students consume milk at least once a day, including almost half of men and 38% women. Students were more … likely to have used butter than margarine as bread spreads. Students most often choose milk with a fat content up to 2 …

This paper estimates the political oligopoly power of domestic raw-milk producers in the Korean dairy market. Domestic … raw-milk price for fluid use is decided exogenously by the government. The government announces the reference price of raw-milk … price for fluid use to protect the domestic raw-milk producers from the potential market power of domestic dairy processors …

bovine milk in double purpose production systems, also known as tropical dairy, in the premises of Dobladero in José Azueta … Veracruz, Mexico. Thirty Milk producers from the Local Livestock Association (Asociación Ganadera Local) were interviewed from … with the help of their families in most of the cases. Two forms were detected to market fluid milk: 1) Selling it to local …

This article evaluates the evolution of productivity, specialization and concentration of milk production in … microregions of Rio Grande do Sul in the period 1990 to 2009. Productivity is measured by the ratio between milk production and the … increases productivity, specialization and concentration in milk production, with emphasis on microregions of Três Passos, with …