Haramaya University agricultural economics and agribusiness programmes

Ethiopia · Haramaya University · pg · unverified source

3practice questions written to this syllabus
2subjects

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The university runs 72 undergraduate, 137 MSc and 46 PhD programmes.

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Official source: https://www.haramaya.edu.et/caes/

Subjects this exam draws on

Agricultural Marketing & Price Analysis1 questionsEconomic Development and Agricultural Economies of the World2 questions

Five practice questions, worked

Original questions written to this exam's published syllabus and pattern. Not past papers.

1. The Ethiopia Commodity Exchange, established in 2008, is notable because it:

  1. Was the world's first commodity futures exchange, trading coffee contracts since the nineteenth century
  2. Combined warehouse delivery, grading, trading and clearing for crops such as coffee and sesame
  3. Replaced all cooperatives in Ethiopia
  4. Traded only livestock
Answer and working

B. Combined warehouse delivery, grading, trading and clearing for crops such as coffee and sesame

ECX integrated the physical and financial sides of trade. The world's first organised futures trading is associated with much earlier exchanges such as Chicago's (1848) and Osaka's rice market.

Agricultural Marketing & Price Analysis · IT in agricultural marketing and electronic trading platforms

2. Under the Malabo Declaration of 2014, African Union governments recommitted to spend what minimum share of public expenditure on agriculture?

  1. 6 per cent
  2. 10 per cent
  3. 25 per cent
  4. 3 per cent
Answer and working

B. 10 per cent

The Maputo (2003) commitment under CAADP, reaffirmed at Malabo, is at least 10 per cent of public expenditure on agriculture. 6 per cent is the target annual agricultural growth rate, a common confusion.

Economic Development and Agricultural Economies of the World · Comparative development paths

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