Abstract
In this study, the author intended to typify the organizational form of the Farmer’s Professional Associations in the Inner Mongolia, and to clarify their problems for future development. To be specific, the study analyzed the details of the formation of the association to identify the reason for its organization, and examined linkages among individual actors in the association. Consequently, the details of its formation indicated that 1） the association was organized to strengthen farmers’ ability to sell agricultural and stock farm products, that 2） subsidies from the Chinese government had directly triggered the formation, and that 3） the organizational form of the association was vertical rather than horizontal. While showing signs that it would grow into a kind of cooperative, the Farmer’s Professional Association could actually be said to be in transition, experiencing rapid organization by leading enterprises and local merchants both in agriculture and stock-farming.
