“…Descriptive analysis was used to summarize a large amount of data, such as frequencies, percentages, means and standard deviations. Multiple linear regression (Ahmed et al, 2022; Jeong et al, 2022; Sodri et al, 2022) was used to analyse the factors affecting the profit of ACs, and a multinomial logistic regression (Long & Freese, 2001) was used to analyse the factors affecting the choice of agribusiness by ACs. Equation () represents the multiple linear regression model used in this study (Bond, 2009; Suminah et al, 2022): where is the profit of the i th AC, α 0 is the intercept, β and 𝛾 are the coefficients of the independent variables, X 1 is the number of members, X 2 is the number of staff members, X 3 is the operating capital, X 4 represents an AC having an office, X 5 represents the presence of a compilation business, X 6 represents the presence of a trading business and X 7 represents an AC that provides an average payback.…”