Essay On Agribank

The editor of Making It Magazine in his introduction to their 2011 6th issue broadly defines agribusiness not only as the whole range of business activities that are performed to move agricultural produce from farm-to-fork but as well as the processing of raw materials for the production of many non-food items, such as textiles, paper and biofuel (UNIDO, 2011). He goes further to explain how this covers the supply of agricultural inputs, the production and processing of agricultural products, and their distribution to the consumer (UNIDO, 2011).

In 1998 Fine defined an agri-food system as one that comprises the set of activities and relationships that interact to determine what and how much, by what method and for whom, food is produced, processed, distributed and consumed (Pimbert, Thompson, Vorley, Fox, Kanji, & Tacoli, 2001). Jamandre supports the above definitions adding on that this system can be subdivided in 5 subsystems which are the input, production, processing, and

The Agribank, a government-owned commercial bank specifically created for agricultural finance, was formed from the dissolution of the Agricultural Finance Corporation in 1996 (Anseeuw, Kapuya , & Saruchera, 2012). With this in mind, one can appreciate that the support subsystem will be functioning throughout the farm-to-fork process rather than at a specific period.

The marketing subsystem is another stage of the farm-to-fork approach that cannot be pinpointed to a certain period in the process as it affects all members of the entire system at different times. This subsystem is concerned with the transfer of goods from farm-to-fork including all handling procedures and infrastructures that move the commodities involved in agribusiness from one point to another (Jamandre). Using examples adopted from Jamandre, the following are examples of the subsystem in action in the piggery