Fruit and Vegetable Quality
mand for quality and breeding, the concepts of hedonic price analysis and alternative approaches to assessing consumer preferenc ...
paid as well to the ethic value of agricultural raw products, produced by using techniques contributing to the protection of the ...
46 FIGURE 3.1 Relevance of quality characteristics in heterogeneous products. ...
of characteristics and their quantitative appearance constitutes the ob- jective quality of a product. Differences between produ ...
program is to improve the potential utility of crops. The incentives of breeding for quality, therefore, depend on the extent to ...
years’ time. This implies that the objectives of breeding programs have to be based on assumptions about future developments of ...
an efficient allocation of resources. However, these flows across mar- kets lengthen the distance between breeders and users in ...
51 FIGURE 3.2Flow of goods and information in subsistence oriented production sys- tems (above) and market oriented production s ...
52 Classification Standardized Methods Method Description Indirect Direct Intuitive Method and Evaluation Hedonic Price Analysis ...
Within the standardized method hedonic price analysis has several advantages in the scope of defining priorities in breeding for ...
producers. Today, the hedonic price analysis is a widely accepted econo- metric tool for the assessment of consumer preferences ...
consumer panel, showed a highly significant correlation of 0.83 (von Oppen, 1976; von Oppen and Parthasarathy Rao, 1982). RESULT ...
56 Explanatory Variables and Average t-Value Product Country 2 3.5 5 6.5 6.5 adj. R 2 Reference Tomatoes U.S. Firmness ...
considerable amount of their income on food. Consequently, it is not surprising that variations in transaction prices are signif ...
Explanatory variables and average t-values Product Country 2 3.5 5 6.5 6.5 adj. R 2 Reference Pearl India Color Protei ...
However, the following considerations indicate that a continuous flow of information on consumer preferences may help to increas ...
most essential elements that indicate trends in consumer tastes. Once the hedonic price analysis is established and validated, i ...
Kroeber-Riel, W. 1996. Konsumentenverhalten,Verlag Franz Vahlen, München, pp. 266–320. Ladd, G. W. 1978. Research on Product Cha ...
von Oppen, M. 1974. Evaluation of relevant economic characteristics of legumes and cereals in the semi-arid tropics. Mimeographe ...
COMMON GROUND Commercially distributed fresh fruits and vegetables are not meeting expectations of consumers. Poor quality of f ...
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