Determination of comparative advantage and problems of production oil seeds in Fars province
2004
Mohammadi, Dadgar | Khademharnzeh, Hamid Reza
Fars province is one of the main agricultural poles in Iran. It would be a main center of production and export of agricultural crops, if a suitable policy and planed investment beused in the agricultural sector. A delicate attention to the comparative advantage of field crops is an important aspect of economic planning. In the current research comparative advantage and problems of the oilseed crops production such as rapeseed, sunflower, safflower and sesame were studied in 2002-2003. To obtain the objectives of the research two groups of indices were used. The first one included of Net Social Profitability (NSP), Domestic Resources Cost (ORC) and Social Cost- Benefit (SeB) ratio. Absolute and relative power purchasingparity (ppp) price were used to determined the mentioned indices. The second one included of Efficiency Advantage Index (BPI), Scale Advantage Index (SCI) and Aggregate Advantage Index (AAI). Based on the first group of indices and also absolute and relative ppp. rapeseed, sunflower and sesame had comparative advantage in production. Safflower had no comparati ve advantage. Based on the EAI index, rapeseed had comparative advantage in yield, but the other oilseed crops had no comparative advantage in yield. SAl was more than one for sunflower and sesame. It showed that there is more concentration for sunflower and sesame than other oilseed crops in the fars province in comparison to the whole country. AAI was also more than one only in sunflower. It means that sunflower had a more comparative advantage In the region than the national average, but it was less for other oilseed crops.
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