A Study On The Systematism Of Agricultural Products Circulation

Agricultural products circulation joins agricultural products production and consumption，transferagricultural product market information and is a matter of interests of both farmers and consumers.Improving the systematism degree of agricultural products circulation is of importance to promote therational allocation of resources in agricultural products circulation and increase thecirculation efficiency and effectiveness, and which is also a very key not only to guarantying theagricultural product market supply, information flow and price stability, but also building an effective,open, and safe agricultural product circulation system. At present, studies on the systematism ofagricultural products circulation mainly focus on the organizational entities, lack of researches onprocess and degree, and lack of corresponding quantitative indicators system as well. Till now, thesystematism of agricultural products’ circulation is still a relatively ambiguous concept. In fact, thesystematism of agricultural products circulation is a concept with rich connotations and its study is afield with specific work. In this paper, the process of the systematism of agricultural productscirculation is made as the research object. Based on Marx’s distribution theory and organization theoryfrom western mainstream and non-mainstream economics, an evaluation index system of thesystematism is set up to describe the present situation and to estimate the stage of systematism ofagricultural products circulation. Starting with the three influencing factors: member, process, service ofagricultural products circulation, this paper analyses the game of cooperation-competition amongmembers in agricultural products circulation, the coordination and organization of agricultural productscirculation process, the optimization of agricultural product circulation service system respectively.Innovations in this paper are as follows:1. This paper gifts the systematism of agricultural products circulation rich connotations. Thesystematism of agricultural products circulation is a dynamic process, in which process, members inagricultural products circulation cooperate and coordinate with each other to integrate and reengineerthe circulation and circulation channel of agricultural products, optimize the service in the circulation ofagricultural products. This dynamic process mainly manifests in four aspects: a competition andcooperation among members of agricultural products circulation; a balance between market and firm ofthe transaction mode; a stage process from low level to high level; a combined action of “self–organization” and “organization”.2. This paper sets up an evaluation index system of the systematism of agricultural productscirculation. The evaluation index system consists of three subsystems: systematism of members, processand service of agricultural products circulation. Under the three subsystems,10second class indexesand38third class indexes are involved. This complete assessment index system consists of the first-class, second-class and third-class indexes, which can comprehensively describe the main aspects ofthe systematism of agricultural products circulation in China. By this model, four stages are identifiedas follows: The primary stage, the intermediate stage, the higher stage and the total organized stage. And the stage of systematism of agricultural products circulation in China is at the intermediate stage.3. This paper analyses the competition and cooperation among members of agricultural productscirculation by the method of game theory, which is a dynamic, repeated game process. The first factorsaffecting the stability of members’ behavior and cooperation are the costs and benefits of cooperation.The second is the fairness of long-term contracts and the credit and confidence for cooperation. Underthe mechanism for supervision, punishment, benefit distribution and other mechanisms, all parties in thegame will eventually choose to cooperate with each other for long-term interests. The specializedcooperative organizations of farmers, agricultural product broker will help to establish and last thecooperation homeostatic mechanism of circulation organization of agricultural products.4. This paper analyses the coordination and organization in agricultural products circulationprocess based on the theory of transaction cost and industrial organization, and analyzes the ways ofvertical and horizontal integration of agricultural products enterprise emphatically. Organization andcoordination process of the circulation of agricultural products consists of three aspects: the process ofeffective competition and cooperation of all the members in agricultural products circulation; theprocess of vertical or horizontal integration of large-scale distributor in agricultural products circulation;and the the process of systematism behaviors under the government’s regulation.5. This paper proposes the way of optimizing the service system of agricultural products circulationfrom “four flows” service angels: value flow, logistics flow, capital flow and information flow. Atpresent the problem in our agricultural product circulation is the service of “four flows” can not show asynergetic effect, so the service quality and efficiency should be improved. In this respect, the followingmeasures should be taken into action: Ensure the investment of the government as the main stay,develop social force, make professional and reasonable division of labor, establish well developedagricultural products’ wholesale market and e-commerce of agricultural products in order to achieve thesynergy effect.