Sectors in Agribusiness

“Agri-business is the sum total of all operations involved in the manufacture and distribution of farm supplies, production activities on the farm, storage, processing and distribution of farm commodities and items made from them” (John David and Gold Berg)”



Agri-business involves Three sectors:

1.Input sector: It deals with the supply of inputs required by the farmers for raising crops, livestock and other allied enterprises.It deals with agro-based industries providing seeds, fertilizers, feed, chemicals etc., The industries supplying machinery or equipment, implements etc are also important in this regard.

2. Farm sector: It aims at producing crops, livestock and other products.

3. Product sector: It deals with various aspects like storage, processing and marketing the finished products so as to meet the dynamic needs of consumers. It deals with production and distribution of farm commodities. Large cooperative bodies also exist in Agri-business, but they are few in number, whereas small scaled agro-industries are large in number. The vertical integration of a farm is very common in poultry, fruit and vegetable farms.