Agro-Industrial Complex
Agro-Industrial Complex is a term that exists to identify combination of several sectors of economy that provide mass production of food and consumer goods.[1] The term is more common in countries of command economy, particularly the former Soviet Union where the term appeared in 1970s.[2] Beside regular farming and agriculture it also encompasses such industries like forestry, fishing and others.
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The agro based industries includes four main fields of interest[3]
- Agriculture, the basis (nucleus) of the Agro-Industrial industries includes horticulture, animal husbandry, industrial farming, individual farming and so on
- Supporting industries and services that provide support to agriculture by means of production and material resources such as manufacturing of farming equipment including agricultural machinery as well as tools, production of fertilizers and other chemicals including pesticides, etc
- Industries that process agricultural basic goods such as food industry or industries that process agricultural basic goods for light industry
- Infrastructural section of the Agro-Industrial Complex includes productions that are involved in provision, transportation, safekeeping, trading of agricultural materials, training of human resources, construction
References
- АГРОПРОМЫШЛЕННЫЙ КОМПЛЕКС (АПК). Economic dictionary
- Krysalnyi, O. Agro-Industrial Complex (Агропромисловий комплекс (АПК)). Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine. 2001
- Аграрно-промисловий комплекс. The Great Ukrainian Encyclopedia.
External links
- Sergi, Bruno S.; Popkova, Elena G.; Bogoviz, Aleksei V.; Ragulina, Yulia V. (2019). "The Agro-industrial Complex: Tendencies, Scenarios, and Regulation". Modeling Economic Growth in Contemporary Russia. pp. 233–247. doi:10.1108/978-1-78973-265-820191009. ISBN 978-1-78973-266-5.
- Nuclear Energy Centres and Agro-Industrial Complexes. International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, 1972
- Shen-Miller, J. (1970). "Some Thoughts on the Nuclear Agro-Industrial Complex". BioScience. 20 (2): 98–100. doi:10.2307/1294829. JSTOR 1294829.
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