Against the backdrop of promoting rural revitalization strategy and high-quality agricultural development, cultivating the entire agricultural industry chain and promoting industrial integration have become key measures to activate the endogenous driving force of agricultural economic growth. This article focuses on the perspective of the entire agricultural industry chain and systematically explores the impact mechanism of industrial integration on regional agricultural economic growth. Firstly, define the core concepts of the entire agricultural industry chain and industrial integration, and sort out the relevant theoretical foundations; Secondly, through theoretical construction, clarify the direct mechanism and intermediary transmission mechanism of the impact of industrial integration on regional agricultural economic growth, and propose research hypotheses; Subsequently, combined with provincial panel data, empirical methods such as panel regression and mediation effect models were used to test the core hypothesis, while analyzing regional and pattern heterogeneity; Finally, the theoretical and empirical conclusions are verified through case analysis, and targeted development paths and policy recommendations are proposed. Research has found that industrial integration has a significant positive driving effect on regional agricultural economic growth, achieved through direct optimization of industrial structure and indirect empowerment of intermediate variables such as technological progress and optimization of factor allocation; There is significant regional and pattern heterogeneity in this impact, with the strongest driving effect in the eastern region, and the high-end cross-border integration model outperforms the traditional vertical integration model. This article enriches the interdisciplinary research system of the entire agricultural industry chain and industrial integration, providing theoretical support and practical guidance for various regions to rely on industrial integration to cultivate the entire industry chain and promote regional agricultural economic growth.

Shunzhi Yang, Xuezhong Zhou. Research on the Impact Mechanism of Industrial Integration on Regional Agricultural Economic Growth from the Perspective of the Whole Agricultural Industry Chain. Academic Journal of Business & Management (2026), Vol. 8, Issue 2: 71-77. https://doi.org/10.25236/AJBM.2026.080210.

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