Economics of Agriculture and Sustainability of Agro-Economy

Abstract

Agricultural finance is an important and complex structure involving actors such as suppliers, farmers, food processors, logistics, wholesalers, retailers and governments in the agricultural food supply chain. Efforts to increase the unit area yield and quality of field crops that have strategic importance in human life are a matter of curiosity for the scientific community. At this point, food safety and food security emerge as the most important issues in addition to the field crops as well. Agri-food supply chain management is a philosophy that envisages supply chain members working as a single business in order to increase efficiency and added value in the journey of food products from farm to fork. In order to combat all these challenges and ensure that people have access to quality food at adequate and reasonable prices, the proper management of the agricultural-food supply chain with the participation and contribution of all actors, from farmers to consumers, from businesses to states, will be among the most important issues in the future, as it is today. Although the subject of the agri-food supply chain is plant and animal products, only the field crops aspect is discussed in this study because the subjects are very broad. This study was prepared in the light of science to address the problems in this regard, to reveal the developments, and to examine the situation of the sector over the world.