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Sakurai, Takeshi; Furuya, Jun; Futakuchi, Koichi. |
This paper investigates the roles of industrial cluster on the efficiency of rice milling and the improvement of milled rice quality. The data were obtained in Kumasi area, central Ghana because the enhancement of domestic rice production is a urgent policy issue in this country, but little attention has been paid to the roles of clusters in post-harvest processing and marketing. Among 63 rice millers interviewed in the Kumasi area, 24 millers form a few clusters in the city of Kumasi, while others are scattered over 25 satellite towns around Kumasi, which enables us to examine the effect of the cluster. Regression analyses reveal that rice millers in the Kumasi clusters tend to adopt more advanced technology, and that the innovation increases milling... |
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Rice; Miller; Industrial cluster; Efficiency; Product quality; Sub-Saharan Africa; Crop Production/Industries. |
Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25683 |
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Lambert, David K.; Wilson, William W.. |
Markets for agricultural products may be inefficient when signals do not adequately reflect product characteristics important to market participants. Although preferences can be explicitly stated through price premiums or characteristic values can be determined via hedonic methods, the problem is compounded when product quality information is costly to obtain. Bundling of quality traits by variety can serve to signal product quality. A procedure is developed in this paper to derive the value of different varieties in meeting buyer demands. An application to the hard red spring market wheat both validates the ability of the procedure to distinguish among varieties, as well as provides empirical support to the existence of Akerlof's lemon market in the... |
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Agricultural markets; Product quality; Distance functions; Wheat; Crop Production/Industries; Marketing. |
Ano: 2001 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/23657 |
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Saak, Alexander E.. |
In a marketing environment, the demand conditions, the costs of shipping and storing grain varieties, the interest rate on farm loans, and the distribution of cropland in the area are important determinants of growers' planting decisions. In this article, I focus on a market for two quality-differentiated agricultural commodities: one produced with the use of biotechnology and the other, without. I develop a model for analyzing the equilibrium planting and marketing decisions made by geographically dispersed producers during the marketing year following harvest. I identify the types of marketing environments leading to a greater concentration of equilibrium acreage planted to a particular grain variety near the market and investigate the effects of the... |
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Commodity prices; Grain storage; Location; Marketing; Product quality; Supermodularity; Crop Production/Industries. |
Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/18427 |
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Pieniadz, Agata; Hockmann, Heinrich. |
This study deals with horizontal product differentiation in the Polish pig meat market. Hypothesis among firms behaviour are derived from an illustrative model and tested in an empirical analysis using data from 1991-1998. The empirical analysis suggest that product differentiation is a relevant phenomenon in the polish pig meat markets. In addition we found that costs and competitions are important factors influencing price variation. However, further influences like price discrimination and vertical product differentiation are also important determinants for product price variations. |
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Pricing; Market structure; Product quality; Marketing. |
Ano: 2002 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/24959 |
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Pieniadz, Agata; Hockmann, Heinrich. |
The challenge of implementing EU quality and safety standards for food production and trading is one of the driving forces behind the restructuring of the agrofood chains in Central and Eastern European Countries (CEEC). The progress made in the compliance process not only varies amongst sectors and countries, but also among particular chains due to differences in their internal structure and strategies, and features of their political and economic surroundings. We construct a models to identify determinants of the diffusion rate of standards in a food chain under pre-accession conditions. We argue that adoption decisions in the food chain are determined by farmers' and processors' economic considerations. Factors such as pricing behavior, compliance costs... |
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Product quality; Standards; EU enlargement; Industrial organization; Livestock Production/Industries; Marketing. |
Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25315 |
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