(1*)Alawee Ali

(1). Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agriculture,Tishreen University, Lattakia, Syria.

(*Corresponding author: Dr: Alawee Ali. E -mail: alaweeali2@gmail.com)

Received: 20/7/2020 Accepted: 22/8/2020

Abstract

The importance of this research comes through analyzing the supply and demand of the wheat crop at the level of total production in Syria, which contributes to exploring the future of wheat cultivation, and in revealing the truth about the factors active between the two sides of the market. By achieving the goal of estimating the supply and demand functions, and studying their economic variables. The descriptive analysis approach and the quantitative and quantitative analysis approach were adopted, using data taken from various official sources during the period (1986-2018). The results of the research showed that the relationship between the supply of wheat crop and the cultivated area is flexible, as increasing the cultivated area by one unit will lead to an increase in the quantity supplied by 1.8 units, and the size of the population has a positive relationship with the quantity of demand for wheat, as increasing the population by one unit will lead to the demand for wheat increased by 1.8 units. The results indicated that there is a nonstatistically significant relationship between the import and export variable, the ratio of the rural population to the urban population, and the quantity of demand for wheat.

Keywords: Wheat yield, Economic estimate, Supply function, Demand function, Syria.

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