Difficulty and Breakthrough of Agricultural Supply Chain Integration
To promote the development of supply chain of agricultural products in China,it is imperative to integrate the supply chain of agricultural products. As to this issue,there is difficulty in both theoretical study and practical exploration,which specifically shows as follows: theoretical knowledge and practical progress disjoint,theory cannot guide the practice effectively,and the problems in practice fail to find the solutions. This paper introduces the concept of "supply chain of agricultural products"in the narrow sense. With the value-added capability of supply chain as evaluation standard,it constructs a theoretical research framework of organization integration,information integration and resource integration in order to identify the supply chain that can be integrated in practice and promote the formation of real value-added supply chain,which can be of help to achieve a breakthrough in supply chain integration of agricultural products.
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