Measuring the comparative advantage of bean in Zanjan and Markazi provinces
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Ainollahi Ahmadabadi, Moharram | Kalaii, Ali
Zanjan and Markazi provinces are two main regions for bean production in Iran. Farmers of these provinces allocate annually more than 24 thousand hectares of their fertile lands to bean cultivation and supply more than 25 percent of bean in the country. Average yield of the bean in these regions is higher than mean yield of the country. In Zanjan province that has the highest yield in the country, cities Abhar and Khorramdarreh are the most important regions for bean production. While in Markazi province, bean is produced in all the cities except for Ashtian Regarding to potential of the aforementioned provinces, government emphasis for developing non-oil specially agricultural products exports and also programming for joining to World Trade Organization (WTO) by the country, shows the necessity of studying the comparative advantage of agricultural products. In this relation, this research was prepared and carried out in Zanjan and Markazi provinces in order to study the comparative advantage of bean. Required data were obtained by interviews with the farmers in the provinces and filling in the pre-structured questionnaires. Gathered data were analyzed using the EXCEL and SPSSWIN softwares and comparative advantage was calculated using the DRC, SCB and NSP criteria. For both provinces, Domestic Resource Cost (DRC) and Social Cost Benefit (SCB) were calculated greater than one and Net Social Profit (NSP) was calculated greater than zero. Data analyzes indicated that both Zanjan and Markazi provinces have comparative advantage in bean production. Key words: Bean, Comparative Advantage, DRC, SCB, NSP, Zanjan province, Markazi province
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