Friday, September 18, 2009

Agro-Industry Definitions and Scope of Agro-industry

Agro-industry is defined as the processing industry of agricultural products. Agriculture is a farm in a broad sense, such as food crops, livestock, forestry, fisheries, and plantations. Include agricultural crops, animals, and microbes.

The core of agro-industries is added value where agricultural products are processed through a process of transformation according to the level of simple technology to properly or high technology can reach and stop at the limits set by techno economic (downstream industry). According to Austin (1992) and Brown (1994), the processing is a process of transformation and preservation through physical or chemical changes, storage, packing and distribution of products.
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Agriculture on agro-industries are the third generation with a focus on agricultural processing activities. Generation activities of agricultural output was processed form. Business characteristics generate added value of products produced and are generally conducted for profit (profit oriented), so the entry in the industry categories (downstream industry). The success of agricultural activities in this generation depends on the quality of agricultural products and the use of seeds / seed quality to support agricultural output.

Agro-industry scope based on the criteria of the transformation process of raw material! According to (Austin, 1992), is divided into 4 levels. There are;

The first level, where activity is process Cleaning, sortages, storage; fruits and fresh vegetables, fresh eggs, etc.

The second level of activity is the process of separation, grinding, cutting, mixing, Meat, rice, cotton, hemp, chicken feed and flour.

The third level includes processes in which the activity boiling, pasteurization, canning freezing, extraction, dehydration, like pasteurized milk products, fruits and canned vegetables, ketchup, cooking oil, soft drinks

Fourth level process activity using chemical application, texturization; ie instant food (instant noodles), tire industry, and sugar.


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