ANALYSIS OF PRICE VARIATIONS AND INTEGRATION OF BROILER CHICKEN EGGS MARKET IN WEST SUMATRA

Chicken eggs are one of the primary sources protein for people in West Sumatra. The level consumption continues to increase every year, while availability broiler is not stable. This condition illustrates problems faced by consumers and producers, namely price instability. Market integration a metric that demonstrates how changes reference market affect follower market. objective this research examine variation Coefficient analysis used variation, cointegration with Vector Autoregression (VAR)/Vector Error Correction Model (VECM) model investigate integration. variations coefficient shows chicken on relatively more stable than consumer results show there no between at producer levels, both long short term. due information asymmetry two markets.