Determination Effective Factors on Aquatics Demand and its Extension Approach in Kerman Province

Increase in aquatics demand is one of the major goals for production policies. Hence analysis of demand structure and aquatics consumption patterns is very applicative and useful for policy makers. Using the Almost Ideal Demand System (A.I.D.S), the demand function for types of aquatics and chicken meat in urban and rural societies in Kerman city were estimated. Applying time series data during the years 1985 2009, price and nonprice elasticities of Marshal and Hicks demand function were measured. Cross elasticity of chicken meat with respect to aquatics meat present that they are replacement to each other. Income elasticity indicates that aquatics meat is a staple commodity in urban population, while a luxury commodity in rural commodity. Measurement of the price elasticities for the urban and rural area indicated that the variable of price has been effective to modify consumption patterns during the period of the study. This indicates that the variable of price was effective to modify consumption pattern. However the price should be controlled by effective pricing policy.