About agribusiness

Agribusiness is a business-based agriculture or other fields that support it, both upstream and downstream. The mention of "upstream" and "downstream" refers to the view that the principal agri-food sector to work on the chain (food supply chain). Agribusiness, in other words, is the economic outlook for food supply business. As an academic subject, agribusiness learn strategies to benefit by managing aspects of cultivation, supply of raw materials, post-harvest, processing, to marketing stage.

The term "agribusiness" absorbed from English: agribusiness, which is a portmanteau of agriculture (farming) and business (business). In the Indonesian language is also known variant anglisismenya, agribusiness.

Agribusiness object can be plants, animals or other organisms. Cultivation is central (core) agribusiness, although an agribusiness company does not have to do it yourself. If aquaculture products (crops) used by the manager himself, is called subsistence farming activities, and is the most primitive agribusiness activities. Utilization itself can also mean selling or swapping to meet daily needs.

In today's agribusiness development includes not only the food industry just because of the use of agricultural products is closely related to the pharmaceutical, materials technology, and energy supply.