Fur Industry: 85% Of The World'S Fur Comes From Artificial Rearing.

The fur industry survives in a huge cultural furnace.

It is influenced by regional culture, traditional technology and lifestyle, thus evolving new technologies and processes to meet the ever-changing needs of the fashion industry and today's consumers.

Today, more than 1 million people in the world work full-time in fur industry.

Fur industry in the world

Fur is usually obtained through artificial rearing and wild fur animals.

In the world

The reason that wild fur enters the fur raw material industry is usually based on the quantity control of harmful animals or carnivores or the management of wild environment.

At present, the annual output of the world mink skin is about twenty-five million and five hundred thousand.

Among them, Denmark's mink output reached about fifteen million annual output, accounting for about 60% of world output.

Next, Finland, Holland and the United States each year about about two million pieces of Communist mink.

The output of mink skin in Russia and China is not accurate, but it is estimated to be at least two hundred to three million.

In a few other European Union countries, Argentina and South Africa also produce a small amount of mink.

The world output of Fox Skins is about four million and five hundred thousand now.

Finland is the largest country producing fox fur.

Annual output reaches about two million and seven hundred thousand.

The next big producing countries are Norway, Russia and Denmark, which have an annual output of about 60000.

Fur industry is a fully internationalized industry because fur raw materials usually travel many different countries before reaching consumers.

Although fur animals need to be reared in relatively cold natural conditions, their ultimate product, colorful fur, is loved by people from different countries all over the world.

Every production of fur raw materials requires the collaboration of farmers' breeding network.

This collaboration includes feed suppliers, pport companies, professional auction houses, animal nutritionists and seasonal workers.

After entering the auction section, the whole industry becomes more internationalized.

The world's largest fur auction house is in the capital of Denmark, Copenhagen.

In Finland's capital Helsinki, Russia's St Petersburg, Seattle of the United States and Toronto of Canada also have professional fur auction houses.

During the auction, the leather was bought in bulk by buyers from all over the world.

Then send it to the professional dyeing factory.

In Europe, advanced nitrite dyes are mainly concentrated in Italy, France and Germany.

The next garment making links have more obvious international characteristics.

In Europe, traditional clothing production is mainly concentrated in Italy, Spain, Germany and Greece.

Nowadays, China's mainland and Hongkong have also become important production bases.

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Fur industry in Europe

The fur breeding industry originated in the United States in the late nineteenth Century.

It was only later in the twentieth Century that it spread to Europe.

The main breeding species are mink and fox.

It also includes a small number of beavers, cyanorchis, musk rats, sable and raccoon.

Today, fur farming industry is still a very important branch of animal husbandry management in some European countries.

Today, 85% of the world's raw materials are derived from Europe and are bred artificially.

Mink farming in Europe accounts for 67% of the world's annual mink production.

The annual output of fox in Europe accounts for 70% of fox production in the world.

Almost every country in Europe can find traces of fur animal farms.

As of 2004, there were about 6500 fur animal farms in Europe.

Fur production in Europe is about nineteen million mink skins and two million and eight hundred thousand Fox Skins, with a total value of about six hundred and twenty-five million euros.

In Europe, about 30 thousand people are engaged in fur farming.

About 106000 people work full-time in the fur industry.

About 108000 people join the fur industry.

Fur industry in Europe is mainly concentrated in Denmark, Finland and Holland.

In 1998, sales of fur raw materials reached about three hundred and thirty-two million euros in Denmark.

As of 2002, sales of fur breeding industry had reached five hundred and fourteen million euros.

Fur industry is the fourth largest export product of the country after bacon, cheese and canned meat.

In Finland, the value of fur sales is also higher than the annual sales of beef, reaching two hundred and fifty million euros.

Fur farming also has certain influence in central and Eastern European countries, such as Latvia, Poland, Lithuania and Estonia.

In 2002, the annual output of mink skin in Poland also reached 600000.

The profits brought by fur farming can be used as supplementary income for other farmers in other agricultural production.

Therefore, the fur animal breeding industry can also effectively help maintain the proportion of rural population and help many farms which are restricted by weather and natural conditions but can not choose many other agricultural activities to maintain economic benefits.