In recent years, parents have paid more attention to the food safety and nutrition of their children's entrance, making more and more people willing to pay high prices for "high-end milk", making bamul milk a new darling in the industry.
Buffalo milk, as the name suggests, is the milk produced by buffalo, different from the ordinary milk produced by domestic black and white flower cows, buffalo milk production is low, nutrition is also extremely rich, has been considered by the dairy industry as "milk noble".
Guangxi's output value is expected to reach 5 billion yuan
In the past two years, Guangxi has promoted the buffalo milk industry as a dominant and characteristic industry, and the autonomous region has arranged more than 40 million yuan of financial arrangements to support the improvement of buffalo breeds and the construction of ecological breeding demonstration farms, and to make the buffalo milk industry bigger and stronger. In 2020, the output value of Guangxi's buffalo milk industry is expected to reach 5 billion yuan.
According to the data, Guangxi is the only province in the country that has three river-type buffalo breeds of Mora buffalo, Niri/Lafite buffalo and Italian buffalo, with 888 fine breed buffalo in the whole region, the largest breeding base of fine breed buffalo breeding in the country, the largest buffalo frozen semen production center and the largest buffalo breeding bull station in the country, and is the only excellent buffalo breeding source supply base in the country, and the first in the country in the supply of fine breeds.
Guangxi, as the "hometown of China's dairy buffalo" with the largest number of buffalo milk, has a vast area of natural grassland, fresh pasture grass provides sufficient nutrients for buffalo, and it is this unique advantage that lays a solid foundation for the development of The buffalo industry in Guangxi.
It is understood that there are 17 enterprises mainly engaged in buffalo milk processing in Guangxi, and the output of commercial buffalo milk accounts for 50% of the country, and the output value and efficiency have been significantly improved.
In the next step, Guangxi will make every effort to promote the development of the whole industrial chain, support the cultivation and construction of a number of specialized enterprises, with the dairy buffalo family pasture and the dairy farmers' cooperative as the backbone, establish a "dairy farmer + cooperative + company" development model, and promote the large-scale, standardized and branded development of the buffalo milk industry.
Milk supply is tight
With the continuous improvement of the quality of life and consumption level of Chinese residents, as well as the continuous improvement of residents' recognition of buffalo milk, the demand for buffalo milk market continues to increase.
Because of the low yield, high purchase price, climate and environmental limitations of only two wide areas of aquaculture, so there are very few good buffalo milk on the market.
However, a small variety of brands does not necessarily mean that the price is cheap. For example, the most common buffalo milk brand, 200 ml a carton, 20 boxes of buffalo milk price at about 110 yuan, equivalent to a box of 5.5 yuan, which is almost the same as the price of high-end pure milk.
It is reported that the nutritional value of 1 kg of buffalo milk is equivalent to 1.85 kg of black and white flower milk, with high zinc, iron and calcium content, amino acids and vitamins, and the flavor is more intense and sweeter than that of ordinary milk.
China's national standard requirements for the protein content of raw milk are more than 2.8%, and some brand products that choose high-quality milk sources can sometimes reach 3.6%. Most of the buffalo milk protein content is 3.8% starting, although there is no mandatory national standard, but the commercially available buffalo milk products, basically 3.8g value up.
Secondly, one of the characteristics of buffalo milk is its high fat content. The fat content of buffalo milk is about 4% to 6%, up to 7.59%, which is much higher than the fat content of ordinary milk (3.0% to 4.0%). Studies have shown that the fat globules of buffalo milk fat are large and the digestibility in vitro is relatively low. Therefore, people with poor digestive function may have difficulty digesting when drinking.
Buffalo milk is a scarce milk source, from the perspective of production, a low-yield black and white flower cow annual milk production is about 3540kg, high-yield black and white flower cow annual milk production can exceed 6000kg, and a buffalo's annual milk production is only about 2025kg, relatively much lower.
In general, buffalo milk is much cheaper and less available because it produces much less milk than cows, because the price of milk is significantly higher than that of ordinary milk because of its scarcity, not entirely because of its higher nutrition.
Industry regulation is not strict
According to the "2020-2024 China Buffalo Milk Market Feasibility Study Report" released by the New Thought Industry Research Center, the protein content and fat content of buffalo milk are higher than that of ordinary milk, which also determines that the taste of buffalo milk is more abundant, and the quality of double skin milk, cheese, butter and other products made of water milk is better, such as The Italian mozzarella cheese, the traditional practice is to use buffalo milk as the main material.
According to data from the China Dairy Data Center, 100 kilograms of black and white flower milk can only produce 12.5 kilograms of cheese, but the same amount of buffalo milk can double the output of 25 kilograms of cheese.
As one of the subdivisions of the dairy industry, buffalo milk, there is no special national standard for buffalo milk in China, and usually the production of buffalo milk meets the requirements of ordinary milk indicators.
Driven by interests, the high-priced market of buffalo milk has spawned some illegal businesses' fraudulent behavior, the quality of buffalo milk products on the market is uneven, some companies have exaggerated publicity, related advertisements say that its nutritional value is dozens of times higher than milk, and the fat content is lower and easier to be absorbed.
Although the content of some nutrients in buffalo milk is slightly higher than that of milk, it is not several times or even dozens of times higher than that of the advertisement. At the same time, the quality of buffalo milk in the market is uneven, which greatly limits the development of the buffalo milk industry.
Some consumers do not understand this deeply, coupled with the guidance of unhealthy consumer psychology, which provides an opportunity for unscrupulous merchants to falsely advertise. At present, the domestic buffalo milk market supervision is weak, driven by interests, and the phenomenon of product fraud is frequent. To a certain extent, it has hindered the expansion of the scale of China's buffalo milk market and the need to further strengthen the supervision of the market.
At present, niche milk has gradually become the new consumer favorite of the dairy market, and consumers have a lot of room for improvement and development potential for buffalo milk demand. Therefore, the benign development of the industry is also the goal of the joint efforts of enterprises.