摘要：The development of biotechnologies and their adoption by agriculturalproducers are expected to have very far-reaching impacts on the processes andproducts of agricultural industries worldwide during the next decade. In thisbook the author examines the potential e.ects of the ￠rst major biotechnolo-gies developed, recombinant bovine somatotrophin (rbST) and multipleovulation and embryo transfer (MOET), on world dairy industries. Bothtechnologies are presently used by dairy industries to some extent. In theUnited States rbST was ￠rst approved for on-farm use at the end of 1993although it is not yet approved for use in the European Community, Australiaor New Zealand. MOET has been employed in developed countries for twodecades and a number of developing countries are now using the technologyat the experimental level. In this study Jarvis analyses the microeconomicimpacts of rbST and MOET in both developed and developing countries withreference to the factors expected to in￡uence adoption and pro￠tability,estimates their likely e.ects on milk costs and develops simple projectionswhich he describes as giving `a rough indication' of the potential impacts ofthe technologies on world dairy markets in the medium term.
