pistachio is a major agricultural export commodity in iran. nowadays, it ranks first among iran’s agricultural exports. this paper focuses on the comparative advantage in pistachio production and the export market in iran. a policy analysis matrix (pam) framework and revealed comparative advantage (rca) index are applied to 2000-2004 data to study iranian government policy regarding pistachio p...

this study compares differences between japan and austria as regarding outdoor activities. we conducted a survey with respect to the utility patterns of kairakuen garden in mito city, ibaraki prefecture, which is one of the three major historical gardens in japan noted for its beauty. this paper compares the results of our survey with a study of the recreational and spatial utility of the hist...

the purpose of this study is to investigate comparative advantages of corn in comparison with other competitor crops. to do so, linear programming, to 2004-2005 data related to classic index (drc) in kermanshah province was applied. results showed that corn has comparative advantages in all regions of kermanshah province while in optimal cultivation pattern of 37.5 percentages of regions in exi...