Trend and Seasonal Variation in Mutton Prices of Tamil Nadu State, India
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2014
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Abstract
A study was under taken to analyze the trend and seasonal variations in
mutton prices in four major consumption centers of Tamil Nadu. The
data on monthly mutton prices for the period from April 1990 to March
2012 were collected from various secondary sources. The trend in
mutton prices were analyzed by simple linear regression technique.
The mutton price trend equation fitted showed that the price of mutton
per kilogram hiked at the rate of 3.117 rupees in Chennai, 3.828 rupees
in Madurai, 3.027 rupees in Coimbatore, 3.768 rupees in Trichy every
month. The reason for this trend in mutton price might be due to the
increasing demand driven by growing population pressure and decline
in supply caused by factor like failure in disease prevention and
decrease in grazing land availability. The seasonal variation in mutton
prices were analyzed by centered moving average method and the
result of the analysis showed that the monthly mutton price index was
observed to be minimum during the month of July in Chennai and
Trichy, September and December in Madurai and Coimbatore
respectively. The seasonal mutton price index was found to be the
highest during the month of January in Madurai and Trichy, December
and March in Chennai and Coimbatore respectively. The reason for the
non-uniformity in mutton prices might be due to the unorganized
nature of mutton marketing which leaves the middlemen and other
private players to behave differently in fixing their marketing cost and
marketing margin.
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TNV_IJAEM_2014_4(1)29-33
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Veterinary Science