Estimating the Export Supply Function of Flowers Case Study: the Dutch Rose of Fars Province in the Region of Persian Gulf

The main purpose of this study was to determine the factors affecting theexport of flowers in iran. after data collection using by the index of revealedcomparative advantage (rca), the condition of business of flowers in iran wascompared with a number of countries exporting the product. according to theresults of study, the small elasticity of the exportation price in the function ofexport demand is negative and smaller than one, and it indicates that flowers areinelastic goods; moreover, the income from its export could be increased by increasingthe price. it can be concluded that the domestic price increase will leadto a decrease in exports due to the high elasticity and negative of export supplyin comparison with the domestic price. partial elasticity obtained for the variableof the value of domestic production of flowers in the export supply function inthis study indicates that uncontrolled increase production by increasing theacreage under cultivation makes the decrease of exportation price of flowers,and at the most it causes reducing of exportation income because of highereffect of low price in comparison with the effect of an increase in demand; thus,the income from the export of flowers can be increased by controlling theproduction and the value of export.