This article provides a new view of Enterprise association model in agricultural production chains, through a biological metaphor proposal of microbial consortia. It collects various implementation cases of the metaphor as a methodology for organization study and their problems, as well as, nature, characteristics and fundaments of both microbial consortia and agricultural production chains. A metaphor is formulated between this two knowledge fields, based on the principles of general system theory. The document concludes exposing advantages and limitations of this con­ ceptual methodology for agricultural production chains case.