COMPLEX APPROACHES TO THE ORGANIZATION OF AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to develop a conceptual framework for the examination of the agro-economic structure of farm-level agricultural systems. The second purpose is to sketch the relationships among these farm-level systems, and between these on the one hand and higher-level systems on the other. These considerations form the basis for the presentation in later articles of an analytical approach to farm management from a systems perspective applied in the context of Asian agriculture.