Reciprocal and Symbiotic: Family Farms’ Operational Performance and Long-Term Cooperation of Entities in the Agricultural Industrial Chain—From the Evidence of Xinjiang in China

The family farm is an important entity in the modern agricultural industrial chain. It of great significance to empirically study its operational performance improvement and sustainable development. This paper introduces symbiosis theory establish a system framework chain analyzes farms’ from view cooperation. We selected 552 planting farms China’s Xinjiang Production Construction Corps as samples measure environment using factor analysis examining effects long-term cooperation among entities on ordered probit model. results show that with other has significant positive impact performance, which can be enhanced by moderated external environment. Therefore, it suggested promote between entities, well optimization, accelerate healthy development continuous, symmetrical, reciprocal symbiotic