Saudi Dates Exports Demand In Selected Markets
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• International Journal of Agriculture and Crop Science,IJACS/2014/7-11/827-832, 2014.
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This paper estimated the external elasticities for exported dates from Saudi Arabia to selected countries during the period 2001-2011. Moreover, it estimated Saudi dates market share in these countries.The export price elasticity is computed as a weighted average of the import demand elasticities in each individual country-product destination market,using the elasticities of substitution across imported types.The results show that the price elasticity of demand was more than one in Germany, India, USA and Pakistan; this means that it could not be possible to increase Saudi Arabian dates’ prices in these countries, because other countries will substitute Saudi Arabia. On the other hand, the short run elasticities were found inelastic, except in Jordan. This result indicates that there is a possibility of increasing Saudi dates exports in the selected countries, except in Jordan, in the short-run, while in the long-run, the only country which has elastic elasticity was India, which indicated that there is a possibility to increase Saudi market share in the selected countries in the long run, except in India.
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Publication year 2014
Pages 827 - 832
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City Dhaka
serial title IJACS Journal (International Journal of Agriculture and Crop Sciences)
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    Al-Mulhim Fahad Supervisor of the Economics of Date Palm Chair and Derivatives. Date Palm Research Center of Excellence - King Faisal University
    El-Habbab, Mohammad Samir Chief Researcher in the Economics of Date Palm Chair and Derivatives. Date Palm Research Center of Excellence - King Faisal University
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