Commodity association membership, linkage of traders-farm gates,active price seeking behaviours and improved Infrastructure arerecommended to enhance market integration, serve price stabilizationpurpose and promote food affordability.
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Objective & Hypothesis:Price information cum transmission dynamics are driving factors in marketintegration mechanism.The role of price in transaction decisions is cogentwith sustainability of agricultural activities hinged on systemeffectiveness.Nation targeting food security must have good grasp onfunctional food commodity pricing system.We designed the study to answerquestions on market integration, explore existing relationship and marketprice responsiveness.Price collected over 52weeks from 24 markets wereanalysed.Markets were highly integrated however with highest prices indeficit zones.
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Key Findings & Data:With each market generating information from others bycontemporaneous periods, markets clearly had superior price informationflow.
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Conclusion & Impact:Commodity association membership, linkage of traders-farm gates,active price seeking behaviours and improved Infrastructure arerecommended to enhance market integration, serve price stabilizationpurpose and promote food affordability.
🔬Design:Research Article
📍Scope:Comprehensive Sample
⚙️Variables:Domain Parameters
Abstract
Price information cum transmission dynamics are driving factors in marketintegration mechanism.The role of price in transaction decisions is cogentwith sustainability of agricultural activities hinged on systemeffectiveness.Nation targeting food security must have good grasp onfunctional food commodity pricing system.We designed the study to answerquestions on market integration, explore existing relationship and marketprice responsiveness.Price collected over 52weeks from 24 markets wereanalysed.Markets were highly integrated however with highest prices indeficit zones. With each market generating information from others bycontemporaneous periods, markets clearly had superior price informationflow. Commodity association membership, linkage of traders-farm gates,active price seeking behaviours and improved Infrastructure arerecommended to enhance market integration, serve price stabilizationpurpose and promote food affordability.
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