Shamsi Amiyan; Zahra Amiri; Mohammad Kavoosi-Kalashami; Siyamak Gheibi
Volume 6, 23(2) , September 2016, , Pages 36-27
Abstract
With growing the health concerns,as well as some arisen environmental problems have proved the importance of the organic agriculture and safe food production valid. The objective of the present study was to evaluate the factors influencing urban consumers’ willingness to pay for green chicken meat ...
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With growing the health concerns,as well as some arisen environmental problems have proved the importance of the organic agriculture and safe food production valid. The objective of the present study was to evaluate the factors influencing urban consumers’ willingness to pay for green chicken meat in Urmia city in 2015. The study’s population consisted of all Urmia citizens, from whom a sample of 283 individuals were selected using the data from the pretest and Mitchel and Carson’s sampling method. This study is practical (applied research) and it is also descriptive and correlational. The data were collected by field research via questionnaire. The content and face validity of the research tools were confirmed by university professors and experts in the field and Cronbach’s Alpha (0. 83) was used to confirm the reliability of the questionnaire. For data analysis, SPSS v. 20, Microsoft Office EXCEL 2010, SHAZAM and STATA software packages were used. The results of Logit and Tobit model indicated 25. 85 and 21. 7 percent higher consumers’ willingness to pay for each kilogram of green chicken as compared to industrial chicken. Variables of chicken consumption per week, attitude toward the general component of shopping, the component of healthy shopping and awareness of the danger of antibiotics were significant at the one percent level. For the purpose of familiarization and acculturalization regarding the consumption of green products, it is necessary to pay more attention to food security and to increase public knowledge and awareness of purchasing these products by media and virtual advertisements and using promotional brochures and training workshops.
Hamed Navidi; Seyed Abolghasem Mortazavi; Hamid Amirnejad
Volume 5, Issue 18 , March 2015, , Pages 82-65
Abstract
Desert ecosystems have substantial economic potentials that paying attention to them in order to attain the sustainable development and to get rid of one-product economy in a country such as Iran is essential. Among the major functions of desert regions is their recreational function. Accordingly, the ...
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Desert ecosystems have substantial economic potentials that paying attention to them in order to attain the sustainable development and to get rid of one-product economy in a country such as Iran is essential. Among the major functions of desert regions is their recreational function. Accordingly, the objective of this study is to estimate the recreational value of Mesr desert region, located in the Khur and Biabanak county of Isfahan province. In this regard, the single bound dichotomous choice contingent valuation method has been used. Furthermore, to enhance the accuracy of this study, the logit and probit models and three functional forms have been employed and their results were compared with each other. According to the estimation results, can be seen although doesn’t exist a significant difference between two econometric models, logit and probit, but there is a substantial difference among the functional forms in both models. Also, using the various functional forms, the recreation value of the Mesr desert region has estimated in the range 4.48 to 9.24 billion Rials in 2012. These results represent on the one hand the substantial value of Iran’s desert regions and on the other hand the sensitivity of the results of contingent valuation studies to the selection of functional form of the models
