Empirical study of the influencing factors in grassland animal husbandry industry chain cooperative mechanism

For building and operating a grassland animal husbandry industry chain, a stable, harmonious, and effective interest linkage mechanism is a necessary precondition. Therefore, the research group conducted a questionnaire survey among the chain participants, namely, the herdsmen, cooperatives, and leading enterprises in four typical grassland animal industries from Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, Qinghai, and Gansu. The group also analyzed the factors influencing the industry chain interest linkage mechanism through the structural equation model. There are four conclusions here. First, the behavioral aspect, logistic characteristics of the animal products, and cooperation intention have a significant positive influence on the industry chain interest linkage mechanism. Second, these characteristics also indirectly influence the benefits from affiliation to the cooperative mechanism while operation status has no impact. Third, the behavior of participants directly and indirectly affects the interest linkage among, them, while the logistic characteristics of animal products have very little influence on the operation intention. Fourth, the state of development, contractual relationships,distribution channel, and awareness of the operation expectations among the participants of the industry chain are prominent factors influencing the operation conditions, behavior, logistic characteristics of animal products, and operationintention in benefit coupling mechanisms respectively.