Agriculture Exams (Agri Econ) – Page 5

#81. Which of the following refers to making the right products available at the right place at the right time?
A promotion
B advertisement
C distribution
D pricing
Answer: distribution
#82. Which of the following function is primarily concerned with making goods available at the proper place?
A storage function
B transportation function
C processing function
D standardization
Answer: transportation function
#83. What marketing function is responsible for the job of collecting, interpreting and disseminating the large variety of data necessary to the smooth operation in the marketing process?
A Standardization
B Risk-bearing
C Market intelligence
D Financing
Answer: Market intelligence
#84. Those individuals or business concerns that specialize in performing the various marketing functions involved in the purchase and sale of goods as they moved from producers to consumers.
A Consumers
B Processors
C Framers
D Middlemen
Answer: Middlemen
#85. They are considered the “actors” in the system who perform vital functions but sometimes they gate the ire of the producers, consumers and the government:
A Producer subsystem
B Environment subsystem
C Functional subsystem
D Channel subsystem
Answer: Channel subsystem
#86. This function involves in solving the problems of when, what and where in marketing.
A Exchange function
B Marketing function
C Facilitating function
D Physical function
Answer: Physical function
#87. Which of the following terms best applies to a single seller market?
A monopsony
B oligopsony
C oligopoly
D monopoly
Answer: monopoly
#88. Which of the following forces in marketing determines the market price of agricultural products?
A Law of comparative advantage
B Forces of supply
C Law of supply and demand
D Forces of demand
Answer: Law of supply and demand
#89. Which of the following items is a technique of forecasting price of a product?
A Trial and error
B Statistical analysis
C Time series analysis
D None of these
Answer: Time series analysis
#90. Firm A produces Product X with a total cost of production of P15/unit. The said firm desires to have a profit of P 8/unit. How much is the mark up price of the product?
A P 25
B P 7
C P 23
D P 20
Answer: P 23
#91. Which of the following terms is defined as the personal and impersonal process of assisting a prospective customer to buy a commodity?
A Promotion
B Advertisement
C Distribution
D None of the above
Answer: Promotion
#92. It is the oral presentation of the product wherein the marketer sometimes goes from house to house to influence prospective customers to buy his products.
A Sales promotion
B Personal selling
C Publicity
D Advertising
Answer: Personal selling
#93. What term best applies to activities concerned with the physical supply of the products including transportation, storage and physical distribution?
A Financial
B Facilitating
C Transactional
D Logistical
Answer: Logistical
#94. If a retailer purchased tomatoes from a wholesaler at P 15 per kilogram and sold them to household consumer at P 20 per kilogram, the percentage mark up could be:
A 133 %
B 25 %
C 33 %
D 75 %
Answer: 33 %
#95. Consider the following data for cabbage: Farm-------------------------P 12/kg
Retail price-----------------P 18/kg
Marketing cost-------------P 0.65/kg
What is the farmers share?
A 80 %
B 50 %
C 67 %
D 33 %
Answer: 67 %
#96. It refers to all services, activities or functions involved in moving the farm products from the point of production to the point of consumption:
A Distribution
B Trading
C Marketing
D Transportation
Answer: Marketing
#97. Which of the following is not a component (sub-system) of marketing system?
A market channel
B producer
C consumer
D none of the above
Answer: none of the above
#98. The behavior pattern of a firm in the industry.
A marketing charges
B marketing performance
C market conduct
D market structure
Answer: market conduct
#99. A component of the marketing margin that refers to the returns to the various factors of production used in providing the processing and marketing services rendered between the farmers and consumers.
A Marketing charges
B Processing cost
C Marketing cost
D Net return
Answer: Marketing cost
#100. A soil chemical property which largely controls nutrient availability and microbial activities
A Buffering capacity
B Cation exchange capacity
C Electrical conductivity
D Soil pH
Answer: Soil pH