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A Regional Analysis of Vegetable Production with Changing Demand for Row Crops Using Quadratic Programming

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 September 2016

J.E. Epperson  and
L.F. Lei
J.E. Epperson
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Georgia, Athens
L.F. Lei
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Georgia, Athens
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Abstract

The purpose of the study was to ascertain the competitive and complementary potential of fresh vegetable production relative to traditional row crop production using a regional partial equilibrium model. It seems clear from the analysis that vegetable crops are not destined in the near future to replace row crops in terms of land utilization. Nevertheless, vegetable crops appear to compete with and complement row crops well as evidenced by substantial increases in production as market share was assumed to increase. However, fresh vegetables cannot be considered as residual enterprises to which producers move when the demand for row crops declines. Even with a simulated 20 percent decrease in the demand for row crops, the acreage of fresh vegetables did not increase.

Keywords

market sharealternative cropswelfare analysissoutheast
Type
Submitted Articles
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Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 21 , Issue 1 , July 1989 , pp. 87 - 96
Copyright
Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1989

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