Analysis of the Effects of Increasing Prices of Energy Carriers on Productions of the Agricultural Sector of Iran, Using Input – Output Approach

مجله اقتصاد و توسعه کشاورزی

Article 4, Volume 26, Issue 1, April 2012   

Document Type: Research Article

DOI: 10.22067/jead2.v1391i1.14101

Authors

Z. Ahmadi¹; H.R. Mirzaei Khalil Abadi²

¹Agricultural Economics Department, Shahid Bahonar University, Kerman

²Shahid Bahonar university of Kerman

Abstract

Energy is one of major factors of productions in all of economic sectors, which have important effect on a country economy. The effect of increasing price of energy carriers on productions of economic sectors is inevitable. Therefore, this research was conducted by using the input - output model and product forecasting. The study investigated the latest available Input - Output table in 1385. The results showed that direct and indirect effects of increasing prices of energy carriers on productions are not similar for different sectors. For instance, in the agricultural sector, production value of agronomy and horticulture subsectors decreased to 8.07 percent, while the production value increased to 2.85, 0.39 and 0.06 percent in forestry, livestock and fishing subsectors, respectively.

Keywords

Increasing price; Eergy carries; Production; Input - output table; Agriculture