Title : ( A survey on factors affecting on consumer’s potential willingness to pay for organic products in Iran (A case study) )
Authors: Mohammad Ghorbani , samaneh hamraz ,Access to full-text not allowed by authors
Abstract
This study determined factors influencing on consumer’s potential willingness to pay for organic products in Iran. Data collected with filling 240 questionnaires in 2006 from Mashhads households and analyzed using Tobit model. Results showed that product appearance and measure of consumers’ information is effective on willingness to pay for organic products. In addition, consumers’ anxieties from chemical residue in nutrition have positive effect on willingness to pay for these products. Also, results showed that households education level has negative effect on willingness to pay for organic products. encourage of consumers to organic products consumption, encourage farmers to produce organic products and without any chemical material and make sustainable marketing for organic products, increasing the households awareness about organic products, expansion of organic product cultivation, government payment for supporting of producers suggested.
Keywords
, Organic food, households, Tobit, government payment, chemical residue.@article{paperid:1007901,
author = {Ghorbani, Mohammad and Hamraz, Samaneh},
title = {A survey on factors affecting on consumer’s potential willingness to pay for organic products in Iran (A case study)},
journal = {Trens in Agricultural Economics},
year = {2009},
volume = {2},
number = {1},
month = {February},
issn = {1994-7933},
pages = {10--16},
numpages = {6},
keywords = {Organic food; households; Tobit; government payment; chemical residue.},
}
%0 Journal Article
%T A survey on factors affecting on consumer’s potential willingness to pay for organic products in Iran (A case study)
%A Ghorbani, Mohammad
%A Hamraz, Samaneh
%J Trens in Agricultural Economics
%@ 1994-7933
%D 2009