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Wednesday 10th of March 2010

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Business Analysis

Market and Price data is useful information only when a user is able to apply it to agric-business for purposes of knowing estimate production costs. This business analysis tool enables you to achieve this based on 4 factors:

Commodity Prices
Current Fuel Prices
Distance between two markets
Input Costs

Below is a guideline which walks you through steps taken to calculate how much you will spend to transport commodities to any location / market in Uganda. This tool is based on current information.

Your first step here will be logging in. If you are already logged in your name will appear top right corner of the page. If you do not have an account please click here to open one. Please note the analysis tool is only accessible when you are logged in.
Select Commodity A list will appear from which you may select any commodity of your choice. Do not forget to type the quantity being transported. E.g. 10000. The system automatically adds the weight of the item,i.e. kg, litre, tray etc. Click "Location Details" to continue. For a list of commodities and markets please go to the commodities page.
Location Details At this stage please select which areas you would like to include in your analysis. You can select more than one destination to make a comparison of transportation costs to different markets. Use the Ctrl key to select multiple markets
Transportation Click Select a truck to see a list of the most commonly used transportation trucks, select one and click input costs to go to the next page.

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Agricultural market information on your mobile phone! You can now receive up-to-date agricultural prices directly to your mobile phone! Follow steps 1 - 4 to find out how this is done.
		Go to new message on your mobile phone to type the message. > Go to Menu > Create New Message
		Type price leave a space commodity leave a space market. Note that these words are not case sensitive; this simply means you write in either capital or small letters or both! Any of the two examples below would return a message showing beef prices for Arua market. price beef arua PRICE BEEF ARUA
		Send your sms to 8555.
		You will instantly receive a message showing current prices as you requested.
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Price Comparison The Price Comparison tool allows you to make a comparison of prices between one market and a number of others. Analysis goes even as far as making a calculation of the prices to show the price difference as a percentage of the primary market price. Simply follow these steps:
select a commodity select the primary market you would like to use for comparison Select the secondary markets. To select multiple markets press Ctrl key as you select the markets Click Search
Results will show the prices in the selected markets and indicate the increase or decrease in price percentage from the primary market.
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