This LEA reviewer contains questions on agricultural marketing and production economics.
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Agricultural marketing consists of a series of services performed from the point of:
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production
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arrival
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consumption
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market place
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Services included physical functions of that transport that creates
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place
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buying capacity
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time
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form
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Storage functions that creates
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time utility
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possession utility
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form utility
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place utility
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Processing creates
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form utility
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place utility
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time utility
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possession utility
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Consists of group of sellers and buyers that facilitates for trading
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supermarket
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market
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public market
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retail market
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Responsible for bringing the products available at the right time, place and form
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traders
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truckers
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brokers
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commission agent
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The various stages at which products pass from the farm to the consumer is called
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raw materials
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market channels
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marketing
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retailing
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Characteristics of the product that affect agricultural marketing included
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perishability
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packaging
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graded
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sorting
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Characteristics of the consumers that affect marketing included
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income
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height
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well traveled
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level of education
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Characteristics of producers that affect marketing
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small farm size
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old
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high income
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uneducated
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Problems of agriculture different from industries
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biological in nature
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production could be programmed
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price makers
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products could be branded
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Study of marketing could be done by studying the commodity called
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functional
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commodity
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institutional
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structural approach
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Types of traders who buys from farmers and sale directly to retailers in volume
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wholesaler
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processors
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truckers
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commission agent
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Types of traders who sells directly to consumers located mostly in public markets
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wholesaler
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retailer
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commission agent
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barrio buyers
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Refers to how the market is organized that determines the relation between the buyers and the sellers
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structure
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behavior
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conduct
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efficiency
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One type of market structure is where no one buyer or seller could influence the price in the market
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monopoly
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monopsony
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bilateral monopoly
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oligopoly
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When there is one seller the market structure is called
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monopoly
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monopsony
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monogamy
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monoculture
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When there is large numbers of sellers selling differentiated products the market structure of the market is called
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oligopoly
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oligopsomy
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polypogopoly
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monopolistic
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Negotiated prices could be determined through
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bargaining
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threatening
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supply and demand
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government
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If the individual has no power in the market in which he/she buys or sell he or she is
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price maker
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price taker
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price setter
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price dictator
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If he/she could dictate the price he/she is a
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price taker
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price seeker
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price maker
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price negotiator
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Price could also be set by the government which are considered as the minimum price
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ceiling price
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floor price
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price map
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price tag
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The maximum is called in the case of rice
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price ceiling
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normal price
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price dictated by demand and supply
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price tag
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Marketing could be improved by providing support that will inform the buyers and seller in the market through the mass media. This function is
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market information
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price manipulation
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price dissemination
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price monitoring
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The difference between the price that the consumer pay for the final product and the price received by producers for the raw product
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marketing margin
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price margin
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profit
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marketing cost
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Types of margin where the absolute difference between prices at two levels is constant in peso term
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mark-up
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constant margin
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marketing cost
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relative margin
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The difference between the price received and price paid by the different middlemen performing different functions divided by the retail price is often referred to as
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breakdown of consumer peso
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mark-up
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buying price- selling price
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break-down of farmers peso
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The cost of performing marketing services are called
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transport cost
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marketing cost
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profit
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margin
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Method of differentiating the products to meet the consumers’ desires is called
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standardization
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grading
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quality control
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branding
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Practice of making quality specification of grades uniform among buyers and sellers
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packaging
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advertising
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standardization
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grading
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In marketing an important consideration in locating the processing plant is to know what happens to the weight and volume of the product after processing. If the products gains weight the plant should be located in the
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market centers
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production centers
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anywhere
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cities
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Most agricultural products have low price elasticity of demand. Elasticity of demand for rice is generally
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less than one
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greater than one
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equal to one
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greater than 2 because rice is a necessity
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Some products their elasticity is relatively higher, one example of product with higher elasticity is
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salt
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fruits
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soft drinks
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meat
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Structure of market that farmers have to take the prices as given
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monopoly
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oligopoly
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perfect competition
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monopsony
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The P’s in marketing are: Whom are they the farmers markets to? What do they want or need? Who is actually going to market the product? This P is
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People
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Product
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Promotion
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Price
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What is to be marketed? What the customer wants. This P is
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people
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product
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promotion
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price
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Where is it to be marketed? How far it is from the farm? This P is
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place
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product
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promotion
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price
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How much is the farmer is going to charge his/her products? This P is
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price
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product
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promotion
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place
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How does the farmer inform about his/her products? This P is
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people
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product
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promotion
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place
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Yield or productivity refers to the concept of
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Marginal product
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Isoquant
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Average product
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None of the above
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