This course will provide students with theoretical frameworks and real-life examples so that students can apply modern approaches into marketing activities of agri-food business companies. The aim of this course is to equip students enough knowledge to plan and implement effective marketing strategies and tactics in agri-food business sector.
Specifically, students will learn about markets of agricultural products; economic theories of agricultural marketing strategies: supply and demand, market structures, measurement of market concentration; stages in agribusiness marketing development: develop a marketing plan, understand consumer behaviour, get insights into the features of agricultural products; agribusiness marketing strategies; agribusiness pricing strategies, price discrimination; agribusiness product strategies, product differentiation, new product development; package, labeling, brand development of agricultural products; advertising and promotion of agribusiness companies; agribusiness channels and distribution strategies, online selling; digital marketing and its applications in agribusiness; evaluation of agribusiness marketing programs; marketing effectiveness metrics.