AGRIBUSINESS PRICE ANALYSIS

Factors affecting prices of agricultural products: long-time, cyclical, seasonal and other price movements; Sources of information relating to production and demand factors; Government activities as they relate to prices of agricultural products; methods and problems in price analysis and forecasting.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Objectives: 

• To enable students to understand the characteristics and behaviour of agricultural prices
• To give students tools to use to analyse and forecast