ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF FACTORS AFFECTING THE PROFITS AND QUANTITY MARKETED FROM THE BARLEY CROP

Abstract

The research aims to conduct an economic analysis to determine the factors affecting the profit achieved from barley crop production, as well as to study the production and price effect on increasing the marketing percentage of the crop. Data were obtained through a questionnaire randomly collected from 130 farmers from barley farmers in Wasit Province. The effect of the yield price, the average production costs and the quantity of production on the profit of the crop using the Evewis program was estimated to be the most influential factor in the profit, as the production increase by one unit, the profit will increase by 315203 dinars. when estimation the percentage of marketing function, the explanatory factors were the productivity, price, farm size and farmers family size, their treatments were 0.23, 0.08 and 0.05 respectively. The research concluded that the marketing administrative complexities and the dwarfing of the area and the low production exposure the farmers to economic pressure that made them sell their yield to the markets where the average price is lower than the quantity marketed and thus their profits. The research recommended the need to open marketing centers in each district and support inputs and provide them at specific times, especially high-productivity cultivars.