A Research On The Integration Of Agricultural Supply Chain Organization

The management of the agricultural supply chain is an effective way to solved theexisting problems in our country’s circulation. It has been researched for a long time, buthaven’t solved the problems fundamentally. That’s mainly because the main part of theorganization in Chinese agricultural products circulation is small-scaled and dispersed, thepartnership is unstable, the status of the two parties to the transaction has a huge disparity, andthe ability to use modern technology is poor. So, integrating the agricultural supply chainorganization is the key step to construct the agricultural supply chain.This paper based on the theories of supply chain management, agricultural supply chainmanagement and transaction costs, filters the main part which suit to participate theagricultural supply chain. Considering the core part of the agricultural products supply chaincan be the enterprise wholesale market, the leading processing enterprises, the chainsupermarket or logistics company according to the four identifications. Based on this, theresearches on the obstacles of integrating the agricultural supply chain organization arestarting from the factors which influence the main part to participate the agricultural supplychain, and the protection of stable operating of the agricultural supply chain. According to thefeature of agricultural and the tightness between the main parts, proposing half-compactintegration mode with contracts as the link and compact integration mode with specificinvestment as the link, choosing the different ways according to the different integrationmode.Through analysis and investigation we know that, the uncertainty of agricultural supplychain, the difficulty of risk-sharing, the low interdependence, the information asymmetry ortransferred barriers, the difficulty of benefit coordination, and the low storage capacity andlimited rationality of the main part are the key factors of hindering the integration ofagricultural supply chain organization. With contracts as the link could maintain thecooperation between main parts in a relatively long period of time, this fits for the agriculturalwith low added value. In this mode, the enterprise wholesale market need to increase theconstruction of information center, the processing enterprises need to upgrade the capacity of warehousing storage, and the supermarket need to ensure the flexibility of the contract. Thecompact integration mode with specific investment as the link fits for long-term cooperation,the most important point is to establish the mechanisms of benefit-sharing and risk-sharing.The innovations of this paper are as follows. First, proposing the specific definingconditions of the participated main part of agricultural supply chain and deepening thegeneralized research on the integration of agricultural supply chain organization. Second,according to the study, revealing the main part of circulation’s participated ability andparticipated objective in the system of agricultural supply chain, analyzing the factors whichinfluence the integration of agricultural supply chain organization, and enriching the theoriesof agricultural supply chain.