Mohammad Ghoush* ⁽¹⁾ and Wael Habib ⁽²⁾

(1).Agro-economy Department. Faculty of Agricultural, Tishreen University, Syria.

(2).Agro-economy, General Commission for Scientific Agriculture Research (GCSAR), Syria.

(*Corrsponding author: Mohammad Ghoush E-Mail:mohammadgh85@hotmail.com).

Received: 17/08/2020                               Accepted: 22/09/2020

Abstract

This research aimed to estimate the function of honey demand, and to determine the most important factors affecting its required quantities at the consumer level in Lattakia Governorate/Syria.The research relied on preliminary data through a field questionnaire targeting a random sample of consumers with a size of 400 households in 2019. Estimates have of demand function showed that purchase price changes were responsible for (35.3%) of the amount required of it by the consumers, as the demand for honey is flexibility high request. The results also showed that the multiplicity of procurement sources, the monthly income level of the consumer, the number of children in the family, and the multiplicity of other bee products that are consumed had a significant positive impact in the honey consumption, while the purchase price, the consumer age, and consumer sex, had an impact significantly negative on honey consumption.

Keyword: Demand function, consumption, honey bee, Lattakia.

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