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Gestion de l'offre et compétitivité des industries laitières au Canada

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  • Rémy Lambert
  • Robert Romain
  • Wayne Howard

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[eng] A survey indicates that Canadian processors achieve different performance results. Québec processors, which process half of the Canadian milk production, have been able to maintain their competitiveness along with their Americans counterparts, by specializing in products with high added value such as ice cream, yogourt and fluid milk, mainly by accepting the competitivity on domestic market. But the processors in others provinces which have rather kept specializing in products such as butter and dried milk, products for which the Goverment ensures the selling, are less competitive. Although all processors agree that the price paid to milk producers is much too high, the quota system of the Canadian dairy policy does not seem to have impeded their progress in productivity, particularly in Québec and in Ontario which account for 80 % of the entire Canadian milk industry. In fact, competitive market for high added value products has probably encourage processors to modernize. [fre] Une enquête auprès des industriels canadiens de la transformation du lait révèle une population d'entreprises hétérogène dans ses performances. Les entreprises québécoises, qui traitent la moitié de la production laitière canadienne, ont maintenu leur compétitivité vis-à- vis de leurs homologues des États-Unis, en se spécialisant sur les produits à haute valeur ajoutée (crème glacée, yogourt, lait de consommation) et surtout en acceptant la concurrence sur le marché intérieur. Par contre, les entreprises des autres provinces qui ont plutôt conservé leur spécialisation en beurre et en poudre de lait, produits dont l'écoulement est assuré par l'État, sont moins compétitives. . Bien que tous les industriels déplorent le prix relativement élevé du lait payé aux producteurs, la politique laitière canadienne de quotas ne paraît pas avoir entravé les progrès de productivité des entreprises de transformation, notamment au Québec et en Ontario qui réunissent 80% de l'industrie laitière canadienne. L'existence d'un marché concurrentiel pour les produits à haute valeur ajoutée a probablement stimulé la modernisation des entreprises.

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  • Rémy Lambert & Robert Romain & Wayne Howard, 1995. "Gestion de l'offre et compétitivité des industries laitières au Canada," Économie rurale, Programme National Persée, vol. 229(1), pages 43-47.
  • Handle: RePEc:prs:recoru:ecoru_0013-0559_1995_num_229_1_4757
    DOI: 10.3406/ecoru.1995.4757
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