Supply and demand

SUPPLY AND DEMAND

It is a basic fact of life – anything you will ever want to buy or sell has a price. That price is determined by how much of a product people are willing and able to sell and how much other people are willing and able to buy in other words, supply and demand.

Supply and demand have long been the factors that determine whether the production of a product can be profitable. Supply is the amount of a product available at a specific time and price. Some of the factors that may determine supply are how many people there are in the business of producing that particular product in the market area, how much of the product is coming into the market area from other areas, and the past history of profitability for that product in your area.

Demand for a product is also determined by numerous factors. Demand is the amount of a product wanted at a specific time and price. It is often determined largely by price. The less expensive a product , the more of it will be wanted. How ever, there are other factors that also influence demand for a product. The amount of money available to consumers to buy that product is a factor that is often overlooked. Compettion from similar products may reduce demand. Seasonal variations in demand also needed to be considered.

agrimarketing

HOW AGRIMARKETING DEVELOPED

In the formative years of  this nation, most Americans worked as farmers, producing food and fiber mainly for domestic consumption. They did more than just produce food and fiber. They also processed farm products into a form that could be consumed: grain into flour, fibers into cloth, hides into leather. They cured meat and processed milk so it could be stored for future consumption. As time passed, production agriculturalists found that their particular geographic location, soil, and climate allowed them to produce some commodities better and more efficiently than others.

The food marketing sector of agriculture developed primarily in response to the industrial and agricultural revolutions, which allowed, and in some cases caused, increasing numbers of people to shift to nonfarm occupation. Fewer people produced their own food, so they depended on farmers to provide food for them. Also, nonfarmers began to demand that food be brought to them in a different form than farmers normally sold their products. As a results, marketing firms began to develop to provide the services that consumers were demanding, and that farmers were reluctant to provide. Today, marketing is the largest phase of agriculture in terms of the number of employees as well as the sales value of food and fiber.

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ABSTRAK

Tanaman kopi merupakan jenis tanaman keras yang periode panennya tidak sama, tergantung iklim dan letak geografisnya. Terjadinya perbedaan pola produksi dan fluktuasi harga dapat menimbulkan resiko usaha yang cukup besar bagi petani. Untuk memperkecil resiko ini dapat ditempuh dengan peningkatan efisiensi usaha dan diversifikasi usaha.