Are Agricultural Markets in the Punjab Technically Efficient?
Keywords:
Agricultural prices, market integration, price transmission, market efficiency, agriculture marketing.Abstract
We test the technical efficiency, measured by the degree of integration, of agriculture markets for five crops in the Punjab province of Pakistan using daily wholesale market prices from the Agriculture Management Information System (AMIS). We find that potato, onion and mango markets are well integrated both horizontally and vertically, with the speed of price adjustment in most cases (mango is the exception) being very rapid. We also find that kinnow and basmati rice markets are both vertically fairly well integrated. Furthermore, we find that trends in cropping patterns over the period 2000 to 2014 are in line with the changing market demand and government price interventions. The reforms introduced by the Punjab Agriculture Marketing Regulatory Authority (PAMRA) Act 2020, aimed at increasing competition in agriculture markets, have the potential to significantly improve economic efficiency.
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