Abstract

Agriculture supply chain has much economic benefits, it can promote the product circulation, provide cooperation opportunity for both the upstream and downstream enterprises. In order to analyze how the agriculture supply chain effect on the business performance in food processing industry, we make a statistical analysis about the effect of agriculture supply chain on food processing industry by using data from 1990 to 2013. The result shows that: First, Agriculture supply chain development will promote the food processing industry’s performance in short time, but this effect will reduce gradually in the long time. Second, agriculture supply chain is the granger reason to the business performance of food processing industry and there exist a long-term equilibrium relationship between them. On this basis, we put forward the related suggestions.

Keywords:

Agriculture supply chain, business performance, food processing industry, granger test,

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