An Innovative Study On Organization Of Modern Agricultural Industrial Chain

Agricultural industrialization, both in the developed and developing countries, is a general direction as well as a way of agricultural development from a traditional one to a modern one. In the process of agricultural industrialization, there has been an extensive concern over this emerging research field both at home and abroad, and substantial results have been achieved also. Over the years, we've been drawing on many relevant theories of supply chain, industrial chain and management in the course of development. Some other modern industrial organization theories have also contributed a lot to the construction and development of agricultural industrial organization. However, all these theories have not yet been applied to the actual practice, which enables this dissertation to study the development of agricultural industrialization in china from the perspective of industrial chain organization.During the past two years, the author has done some fieldwork in southern counties of Nanchong City, Ziyang City and Shunyi District in Beijing. Based on the author's achievement of practical investigation and the present state of the development of modern agriculture in china, this dissertation constructs the basic framework of study, analyzes the innovative mode for modern agricultural industrial chain organization and also puts forward some corresponding suggestions on system and policy establishing after defining the meaning and features of modern agricultural industrial chain organization on macro, middle and micro levels.This thesis includes ten chapters. Chapter one is the introduction, which introduces background, significance and premise of the study as well as the main contents, way of thinking, research methods, some innovative points and shortages. Chapter two defines and analyzes the conception of modern industrial chain organization in agriculture in detail, which lays the foundation for further study.Confronting theories of supply chain and management directly, Chapter three first analyzes their relations to industrial chain and their illumination on it, and then a brief summary and commentary of the status quo of study on agricultural industrial chain based on theories of industrial chains are made. After that, main view points of the western industrial organization and their application in Chinese agriculture are introduced based on which the discussion on the status quo of study on agricultural industrialization organization and industrial chain is made. Furthermore, the insufficiency of previous study in this filed is summed up so that the theoretical perspective of this dissertation is born.Chapter four makes a comparative study on international modern industrial chain organizations in agriculture. After introducing the developing course of agricultural industrialization in U.S.A, Japan and Holland, a comparative analysis is made among their development models, features and experiences. Thus several things have been learned in this process for constructing our own modern agricultural industrial chain.Chapter five analyzes the connection and distinction between industrialized operation and the construction of industrial chain organization in agriculture. The author points out that the latter is built up in the framework of the former. In a sense, theories and practice of the latter can be seen as the initial exploration of the former as the emergence, development, achievements and existing problems of the latter lay the practical foundation for the former.As the theoretical foundation of this thesis, chapter six establishes, from vertical and horizontal points of view, the developing mode of the industrial chain organization in agriculture which should be a system between enterprises and the market, mainly composed of intermediary bodies. Applying the method of modern economic analysis and constructing relevant mathematical logic mode, this chapter also makes a study on the price effects of agricultural integration mode and compares the incentive and efficiency between vertical and horizontal modes from the angle of buyer and seller monopolization.Chapter seven chooses three typical mode, that is"company + peasant household","cooperative association + peasant household"and"company + cooperative association + peasant household", as the main content of study on the vertical integration of modern Chinese industrial chain organization in agriculture. Game theory is applied to analyze the stability, income of participating bodies, and impulse to break agreement of each mode.Chapter eight considers the horizontal integration in the organization of industrial chain in agriculture as the expansion of each section on the vertical chain. Of all the sections, agricultural production and business bodies are always in the central position. Therefore, this dissertation focuses on horizontal integration modes such as specialized peasant households, professional peasant cooperatives and stock cooperatives so as to discuss the innovative mode for the stable development of the modern industrial organization in agriculture.Based on analysis of planting and breeding, two typical agricultural industrial chains and the author's practice cases, Chapter nine analyzes the three typical modes mentioned in last chapter which provide practice experiences for the organization of modern agricultural industrial chain and study on its innovative mode.Chapter ten brings up two different types of the organization of industrial chain in agriculture in the future. The author points that the intermediate organization should become the main mode because of its various advantages, such as low transaction cost and high efficiency.Chapter ten analyzes the pros and cons of the cooperative integration mode and discusses the possibility of the future innovative mode: intermediary organization mode which will become the main mode in the course of agricultural modernization. Moreover, on the existing problems in construction process of the agricultural industrial chain, this chapter puts forward some suggestions for system and policy establishing.Great importance is attached to inherent logic and integration of different analytical methods in this dissertation, such as the integration of normative and positive analysis in modern economics, of qualitative and quantitative analysis, of historical and comparative analysis, and the game theory in system economics, etc. In-depth analysis is done on relevant questions in the modern agricultural industrial chain organization. The essential points are as follows:Firstly, constructing and perfecting the modern agricultural industrial chain plays an important role in the course of advancing modern agriculture in China. Secondly, due to factors like the malfunction of market and transaction fees, agricultural industrial chain, a special kind of industrial chain, takes integration as its direction in developing. Integration comprises vertical and horizontal ones. The latter refers to the expansion of each section on the former one, that is, the integration and expansion of economic bodies on the same section, strengthening of the competitive power of each section, and balance of the power on each section all together ensure the stable development of the industrial chain. Thirdly, cooperative integration, the complex pattern of vertical and horizontal integrations, realizes the complete integrative operation, thus effectively reducing the inner transaction cost in market transactions and industrialized organizations, whereas increasing management cost in a sense. Therefore, intermediary organizations, a shape of integration organizations between market and enterprises, should be the main mode for our agricultural modernization. Last but certainly not the least, on the status quo of our agricultural development, to establish the intermediary organization is a tough task. Meanwhile, the dual features of this kind of organization make it lack of the foundation in reality. Therefore,"company + cooperative organization + peasant household"mode should be taken in developing the agricultural industrial chain organization and more research should be done to understand and master the relation among different sections in the agricultural industrial chain so as to actualize the optimized development of it.