AN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF SOME FACTORS AFFECTING IN MARKETING EFFICIENCY OF DRY ONION CROP USING THE TOBIT REGRESSION MODEL

Autor: Q. T. Jassam, A. T. Abd Al-majeed, E. H. Ali
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: The Iraqi Journal of Agricultural science, Vol 53, Iss 1 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 0075-0530
2410-0862
DOI: 10.36103/ijas.v53i1.1523
Popis: The study was aimed to evaluate the marketing efficiency of dry Onion crop in Salah al-Deen, as estimate the impact of some quality and quantity factors in the efficiency of marketing process of crop using Tobit regression model. The average marketing efficiency of the research sample was 71.3686%. The marketing margins differed according to the marketing channel followed in marketing the crop. The qualitative and quantitative variables in the model are productivity, family size, distance from the market, educational level. The estimated model revealed that a variable productivity is the most important and influential in marketing efficiency, followed by the variable of the distance between the farm and the market, then the variables of family size and educational level, with less influence according to the estimated model values. The Wald statistical test, which follows the chi-square distribution at degree of freedom d.f4, revealed the significant values of the traits of Tobit regression model as a whole 0.0017
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