Assessing the degree of competitiveness of the global chicken meat market structure and its impact on imports in Iran

Abstract

Introduction: The market structure represents the organizational characteristics of the
market and with the help of these characteristics, the relationship between market
components can be determined. Market structure is in fact those organizational
characteristics of the market that can be identified by determining the nature of pricing and
competition in that market. In this study, the structure of the global chicken meat market
was examined in terms of competitiveness or monopoly and its impact on the import of this
product in Iran.
Materials & Methods: The data of this study based on the production quantity of the top
chicken producing countries in the world during the period 2011-2020, which was collected
from the statistical database of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
Results: The results showed that the global chicken meat market, based on the
concentration ratio index, is not a complete or dominant monopoly market and is a
multilateral monopoly.
Conclusion: Based on the demand pattern of chicken meat imports in Iran, the findings
showed that the concentration ratio has a negative impact on the import of this product in
the country.