Jinling Sun* | Juan Pang
OPEN ACCESS
To disclose the mechanism of supplementary collection strategy for industrial buyers in a local agricultural biomass market, this paper presents a framework of the economic behaviors, goals and interests of stakeholders in the market, including investors, industrial buyers and so on, and applies the game theory to investigate the willingness of the supplier and the buyer to seek strategies for common interests. In the supplementary collection strategy, special emphasis was laid to the sustainability of biomass supply. It is discovered that a buyer can reap more profits through the supplementary collection strategy; owing to the long transport distance, however, the strategy fails to achieve highly efficient biomass utilization.
Material competition, Agricultural residues, Game theory, Biomass.
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