Spatial and Temporal Characteristics, Evolution Law and Improvement Path of China’s Animal Husbandry Production Pattern
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
The article, entitled Spatial and Temporal Characteristics, Evolution Law and Improvement Path of China's Animal Husbandry Production Pattern, presented for review, concerns very interesting changes in animal production and keeping.
A wide multidisciplinary state analysis was applied using appropriate algorithms.
The manuscript was prepared clearly, I have no objections to the presentation, the description and the discussion are correct.
Actually, the article can be printed in its current form, but I have one basic reservation (I leave the decision on this matter to the Editor), because this article may be valuable for readers from all over the world, mainly from the methodological point of view.
In the opinion of the reviewer, an article published in an international journal with a global reach should be more utilitarian. The data presented in the study are generally not backed up, compared or discussed with the situation in any other country in the world except China.
I realize that with such a large development it is very difficult, but I can see 2 options:
1. Discuss the results with world literature and the situation of other countries in the world, but the article will be very extensive, or
2. Divide the article into two separate studies with a thorough analysis and comparisons of selected contexts, taking into account the global situation.
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Reviewer 2 Report
This paper deals with spatial and temporal evolution of husbandry in China.
General comments
It is particularly difficult to read for several reasons: 1) most people do not know the different provinces in China and when they are enumerated in text it is a problem-they should privilege maps, 2) many sentences are very long with repetitions.
One category of husbandry is not apparently present, broilers, I could only see poultry egg, which correspond possibly only to egg production. It is not very clear what is the difference between animal husbandry (production of cattle, sheep etc..) and products (beef, milk, pork etc..). How this was separated?
Some of the indices (except Gini) are presented but we do not know if they are build by the authors or are already present in other studies. Even for Gini, the reference is Gini Corrado (1932) "On the measurement of concentration". What is DEA model?
The proposals at the end of the discussion are not much in the line of sustainability. "One product, one site" is not very good for circular economy du to the size of China. The opinions on greening husbandry are really not in line with the present proposals around the world. The proposals are more on increasing productivity than greening husbandry. Increasing productivity might be foreseen as a tendency of the studied evolution but not as a kind of green evolution.
Comments along the paper
l 57: specialization appears twice, one after the other
l 141: after second, - it is a very long sentence
l 333: ..constantly steadily increasing.. may be constantly is enough
l 179-180 Third....third ? the sentence is unclear.
l 371-372 repetition of the sentence
l 446 ....At the same time there is a upper case appearing in the sentence
Fig 5: 1995/ million tons 995 Is it 995 million tons
Table 3: Write ICR7 (%) and in full Industry concentration index
Fig 6: dual structure index: what about 2018-2020?
l 611: is CR7 ICR7?
l 648-649: the reference is split in two.
l 681: "development ideas: delete the hyphen before development
l 675-684: a very long sentence! to be shortened
l 696-697: There is: Second and then First. Clarify
There is some interest of the paper (mostly on the evolution of concentration of production) but it very difficult to read and also there is no comparison to other works made in other countries. I recommend a major revision.
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Round 2
Reviewer 1 Report
thank you for improving the elaboration, now it is a valuable elaboration
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Reviewer 2 Report
The paper is improved.
line 350: 10% is not considered as significant, usually 5%
what do you mean by transforming big into large production center, farm?
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