ANNUAL VARIATIONS AND TRENDS OF WHEAT AND BARLEY ‎ PRICES IN TRIPOLI MUNICIPALITY IN THE PERIOD 2000–2010.‎

Abstract

Prices of soft and hard wheat, and barley in Tripoli Municipality vary from year to year during the period ‎‎2000-2010, the variations were sharp in some years. Price of soft wheat ranged between 812.00 Libyan ‎dinars per ton in 2004 and 1250.00 dinars per  ton in 2010, with an annual average price of 980.818 ‎dinars per ton. Price of hard wheat ranged between 727.00 dinars per ton in 2004 and ‎‏1254.00‏‎ dinars ‎per ton in 2009, with an annual average price of 968.00 per ton. Price of barley ranged between 686.00 ‎dinars per ton in 2004 and 1094.00 dinars per ton in 2009, with an annual average price of 859.591 per ‎ton. Prices of soft wheat, hard wheat, and barley took a general rising trend during the period 2000-‎‎2010, and the prices of soft wheat, hard wheat, and barley had increased by a rate of 36.464 dinars per ‎ton, 36.000 dinars per ton, and 27.759 ‎‏ ‏dinars per ton per year respectively. There are variation and ‎differences between prices of soft wheat, hard wheat, and barley, and they were subject to fluctuations ‎in the period 2000-2010. While, prices of both soft and hard wheat were unstable, prices of barley were ‎stable in this period, and this characteristic of prices of these cereals can be attributed to the factors ‎affecting the supply of these cereals and demand for them.‎

Key words: wheat, barley, prices, annual variations, trend.‎