The Impacts of Seasonal Variables on Wholesale Price in Taipei City of Imported Vegetables -The Case of Radish ,Lettuce ,Broccoli and Celery
Date Issued
2016
Date
2016
Author(s)
Wu, Ming-Kuei
Abstract
From ancient times, farmers have followed the solar terms to change their planting of crops timely, so they can be able to have a good harvest. However, vegetables in Taiwan market prices often fluctuate due to climatic factors. Compared with local vegetables, imported vegetables as a substitute for the climatic factors can provide consumers a variety of options. The final end sales in the Taiwan market of imported vegetables, which also affected by climate, still need to fight against to the local vegetables'' prices. This research sample is from the Central Weather Bureau and Agriculture and Food Agency, Council of Agriculture, Executive Yuan of Agriculture Food Agricultural Trading Market web, aiming to use data of time series, discussing about the impacts on imported vegetables price and trading volume by climatic and seasonal factors. Through the research, we hope that result can bring valuable information to any Agricultural organizations and trading companies for their reference of making purchases and sales strategy. In short, according to the research, the different temperatures & seasons would have certain impacts for the wholesale price. In addition, the rainfall, typhoon, chilling injury would have caused obvious impacts on the wholesale price.
Subjects
climate
climatic factors
imported vegetables
wholesale price
Type
thesis