Factors affecting the willingness of consumers for camel meat in the east of the country with a generalized ordered logit approach

Subject Areas : Agricultural Economics Research

Mohsen Alipour ¹ , Seyed mahdi Hosseini ² , Amir Dadrasmoghadam ³

1 - Msc Agricultural Economics, University of Sistan and Baluchestan
2 - Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Management and Economics, Sistan and Baluchestan University, Zahedan, Iran
3 - Assistant Professor, university of Sistan and Baluchestan

Received: 2023-02-10 Accepted : 2024-01-06 Published : 2024-01-06

Keywords: Tendency to consume, Camel meat, Generelized ordered logit,

Abstract :

Animal husbandry is one of the sub-sectors of agriculture, which plays a significant role in providing the protein needed by the country and, accordingly, food security. Camel meat production in Razavi Khorasan, South Khorasan and Sistan and Baluchestan provinces is cost-effective due to the desert location of the region, and by investing in it, the price fluctuations of red meat in the market can be reduced to some extent.
In this research, data and statistical information were collected from the completion of 1020 questionnaires using a two-stage cluster sampling method with appropriate assignment at the level of the centers of the three provinces of Razavi Khorasan, South Khorasan and Sistan and Baluchestan in 2020.
The findings of this research show benefits of camel meat have a positive and significant effect on the willingness to consume camel meat, while that the price of various types of fish, beef and sheep meat has a positive and negative effect on the willingness to consume camel meat based on the relationship of substitution and complementarity