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Abstract
This paper shows to investigate the performance and efficiency of marketing system of chick pea,
green gram and pigeon pea in each selected townships. This study assessed the marketing channel,
distributed marketing margins and spatial market price integration to evaluate the performance of
pulses marketing in Myanmar. The result showed that producer received the largest net margin
followed by the exporter, town wholesaler, wholesaler in Bayintnaung market and finally by the
primary collector, pigeon pea marketing channel for Myittha contained primary collector, town
wholesaler, Myingyan town wholesaler, Yangon and Mandalay wholesaler and exporter. MAPT also
served as intermediate is for export. In this channel, the largest share of net margin kept by producers
while the exporter had the share. However, wholesaler in Bayintnaung market, town wholesaler and
primary collector reaped small amount of net margin. Among the all intermediateries, the exporters
margin was highest for these selected pulses although the other margins were reasonable. The
marketing inefficiency exists at the exporters level. It can be concluded that the lower marketing
margin is the indicator of competitive and efficient market. The analysis of the two markets integration
was to know the degree of co-movement of prices in spatially separated market. The assumption was
that Mandalay current wholesale price depend upon the Yangon current wholesale price and taking
one to five lags weekly wholesale price of both Yangon and Mandalay markets. The percentages of cointegrated
can be seen 57% for chick pea, 65% for green gram and 85% for pigeon pea. It can be
concluded that there exist the long-run co-integration for pigeon pea price correlation and moderately
co-integration for both chick pea and green gram within the Yangon and Mandalay markets.