Abstract:
It has been stressed the importance of encouraging agricultural industry cluster to reduce agricultural cost,improve competitiveness,form an organic entity in the region and promote the scale effect.The pepper industry cluster in Zunyi city,Guizhou Province,is of a certain scale,and we applied Porter′s Diamond Model to analyze its current situation,thus found out that it was considered to be a more mature industry cluster with superior development conditions in six aspects,factors conditions,demand conditions,firm strategy and rivalry,related and support industries,government,and chance.Meanwhile,we studied the path of its development,showing that the development of Zunyi pepper industry cluster has grown gradually through four stages,taking advantage of natural conditions,food culture opportunities,policy support,and industrial linkage.We could also summarize the development experience of pepper industry cluster in Zunyi city as five perspectives,optimizing the layout of districts and counties,valuing science and technology,cultivating leading enterprises,attaching importance to digitalization,and increasing publicity.We hope that this material will help enrich the conversations that will ultimately result in sound studies for the development of other agricultural industry clusters.