چکیده در این پژوهش با استفاده از داده‎های حاصل از 107 نفر از اعضای تعاونی‎های تولید کشاورزی، درجه اهمیت تنگناهای پیش‎روی تعاونی‎های تولیدی با بهره‎گیری از معیار آنتروپی بررسی گردید. نتایج نشان می‎دهد که نبود برنامه‎ریزی جامع بلندمدت از سوی مدیران و اعضای تعاونی‎ها در زمینه اقدامات بازاریابی در زمان تولید محصولات و پس از تولید با وزن (1/0)، وجود عوامل واسطه‎ای و دلالان در هنگام فروش محصول از سوی...

The California dairy industry generates about $4.5 billion in gross farm revenue, more than any other agricultural industry in the state. The dairy industry is also one of the most heavily regulated and supported agricultural industries in California. This article examines how the role of government has evolved in one part of the California milk marketing and pricing system. We describe the cre...

There are some apparently successful cases of collective marketing with staple food commodities (grains and root crops), but these are less common than cases involving higher value agricultural products. These can be attributed to the benefit/cost ratio to participants being generally higher for collective marketing of the higher-value crops. Some of the costs are ‘hidden’, in the sense that th...

The mobile phone technology is an important tool to enhance farmers’ access to better paying agricultural markets. The study reports the results of a household study in Mwanza, Dedza and Mzimba Districts of Malawi. The study assesses drivers of adoption of mobile phone technology for agricultural marketing by smallholder farmers. The study used regression techniques to identify drivers and exte...