Marketing Information System in Citrus Fruit Pricing: A Case Study of Lattakia, Syria
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n5p286" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n5p286</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n5p286" target="_blank" >10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n5p286</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Marketing Information System in Citrus Fruit Pricing: A Case Study of Lattakia, Syria
Original language description
This study focuses on the field of citrus markets in the Lattakia region, the Syrian Arab Republic. Despite the high impact of citrus production on the livelihood of more than 40,000 families in the region, citrus farmers are not informed about expectedprices and market trends. This information is crucial to making successful business decisions. The main aim of the paper is the assessment of Lattakia market price dynamics and to verify the use of regression and OLS models as tools of an Agricultural Marketing Information System (AMIS) for citrus price forecasting in the Lattakia region. To this end, five indicators were applied to the data set and two models for citrus wholesale price prediction on the Lattakia markets were tested in the paper. Theseindicators and models were applied to empirical data, obtained from an actual Marketing Information System in the Lattakia Region. The results showed high volatility in the prices between the markets and over different months and the regr
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Classification
Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
GA - Agricultural economics
OECD FORD branch
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Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2015
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences
ISSN
2039-9340
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Volume of the periodical
6
Issue of the periodical within the volume
5
Country of publishing house
IT - ITALY
Number of pages
12
Pages from-to
286-297
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
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