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AN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF DATES TRANSPORTATION MODEL BETWEEN IRAQI PROVINCES WITH MINIMUM COST | ||
| The Iraqi Journal of Agricultural Science | ||
| Article 1, Volume 44, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 384-396 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Zuhal R. Kadhim; Ahmed M. Faris; Nedal M. Ali | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Date palm needs a special kind of climate where rain fall and humidity are at lowest level in addition to its need to high temperature. Such climate dose not exist in the north of Iraq and there is demand for date commodity therefore there is a necessity to transport the surplus from production centre's to the Provinces where there is no production of dates. The transportation process between different region is related with the cost incurred by transportation, therefore it is necessary to choose transportation routes which minimize the cost. The objective of this research is to use transportation model to find the optimum solution for surplus date transportation among Iraqi Provinces by formulating two models for date transportation and by applying three methods of transportation methodology which are northern west corner, least cost and Vogel's approximation by considering the production season 2011 data. The first model considered 13 Provinces or supply centre's for date distribution and five Provinces or demand centre's for date. Supply and demand sides of this model were equated by using only 6% of the surplus of date produced Provinces to be transported to the Provinces with deficit of date production and the total supplied and demanded quantity of this model was 33323 tons of date. The second model considered 13 Provinces of date supply and six Provinces of date demand and this model was equated by adding sixth slack demand centre and the total quantity of supply and demand for this model was 532515 tons of date. The results showed that the optimum solutions for both models achieved least costs for transportation among Provinces of about 1101742 and 705868 thousand dinars respectively for the three methods of transportation. Therefore it was recommended to consider these methods to solve the transportation problems related to dates for future by decision makers. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Economic Analysis; Advantage; Transport Cost; Total Production | ||
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