Primary agricultural product demand in post-communist Russia

Rimma Shiptsova, H.L. Goodwin and Rodney Holcomb
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Rimma Shiptsova: Department of Economics, Utah State University, 3530 Old Main Hill, Logan, UT 84322-3530. E-mail: rshiptso@econ.usu.edu, Postal: Department of Economics, Utah State University, 3530 Old Main Hill, Logan, UT 84322-3530. E-mail: rshiptso@econ.usu.edu
H.L. Goodwin: Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701., E-mail: haroldg@uark.edu, Postal: Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701., E-mail: haroldg@uark.edu

Agribusiness, 2004, vol. 20, issue 2, 129-141

Abstract: This study examines food consumption patterns for households in Siberian Russia. The study is based on a survey conducted by the American Business Center in Vladivostok in February|March 1996. When incomes grow, households tend to include greater proportions of livestock products in their diets. That leads to a corresponding increase in indirect cereal consumption. Alternative measures of food consumption employed in the analysis are expenditures and calories. The results show that the expenditure income elasticity of cereal products is positive whereas income elasticities of cereal products are zero for calorie measures, implying demand for service from non-agricultural sectors. The elasticities of total food and animal product consumption are positive for both measures. Stabilization of transition economies might lead to a substantial increase in indirect cereal consumption, which, in turn, would lead to a dramatic increase in demand for agricultural imports. [EconLit citations: L660, D120, Q180.] © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Agribusiness 20: 129-141, 2004.

Date: 2004
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