Exploring the Compelling Components with Consumer Organic Food Purchase Intention and Intention Behavior Gap in Covid-19: Evidenced from Pakistan

The purpose of this study is to identify the factors which affect organic food purchasing and to explore the factors in which Covid-19 affects consumers’ purchase intention regarding organic food. The study started with an exploratory exercise, whereby in-depth interviews were conducted with Eighte...

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Main Authors: Zafia Bibi, Ahsan ul Haq Satti
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Language:English
Published: International Research Alliance for Sustainable Development - iRASD 2022-06-01
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Online Access:https://www.journals.internationalrasd.org/index.php/jom/article/view/791
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description The purpose of this study is to identify the factors which affect organic food purchasing and to explore the factors in which Covid-19 affects consumers’ purchase intention regarding organic food. The study started with an exploratory exercise, whereby in-depth interviews were conducted with Eighteen customers, using mall intercept techniques. Thematic analysis was used to examine data. The study results showed that cost, perceived value, social values, health consciousness, and purchase behaviour, Covid-19 have a positive impact on consumers’ purchase intentions. The findings of this study will help to Improve distribution channels to extend their competitiveness in the organic food market in Pakistan. Prices are high with other conventional food because the production of organic food is low in Pakistan, That’s why producers demand higher prices. On the consumer side, if he is prepared to pay higher prices, he wants to make sure the food is Organic. The reason is that there is no authentication, and certification of organic food production is a major issue, in Pakistan, no institution gives surety that organic food farms are registered from a specific year. Government should give certification, in this way when consumers satisfy then consumers intentions toward organic food purchasing should become higher. Government should Promote Organic fertilizer and its production, that’s why prices of green food items become less.
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spelling doaj-art-df16e5b4fc824ceaa7c664cc671ec0ab2024-11-26T13:21:19ZengInternational Research Alliance for Sustainable Development - iRASDiRASD Journal of Management2709-84432709-84512022-06-014210.52131/jom.2022.0402.0084Exploring the Compelling Components with Consumer Organic Food Purchase Intention and Intention Behavior Gap in Covid-19: Evidenced from PakistanZafia Bibi0Ahsan ul Haq Satti1Pakistan Institute of Development Economics Islamabad (PIDE), Pakistan.Pakistan Institute of Development Economics Islamabad (PIDE), Pakistan. The purpose of this study is to identify the factors which affect organic food purchasing and to explore the factors in which Covid-19 affects consumers’ purchase intention regarding organic food. The study started with an exploratory exercise, whereby in-depth interviews were conducted with Eighteen customers, using mall intercept techniques. Thematic analysis was used to examine data. The study results showed that cost, perceived value, social values, health consciousness, and purchase behaviour, Covid-19 have a positive impact on consumers’ purchase intentions. The findings of this study will help to Improve distribution channels to extend their competitiveness in the organic food market in Pakistan. Prices are high with other conventional food because the production of organic food is low in Pakistan, That’s why producers demand higher prices. On the consumer side, if he is prepared to pay higher prices, he wants to make sure the food is Organic. The reason is that there is no authentication, and certification of organic food production is a major issue, in Pakistan, no institution gives surety that organic food farms are registered from a specific year. Government should give certification, in this way when consumers satisfy then consumers intentions toward organic food purchasing should become higher. Government should Promote Organic fertilizer and its production, that’s why prices of green food items become less. https://www.journals.internationalrasd.org/index.php/jom/article/view/791Consumers purchase intentionOrganic foodHealth consciousnessCostPerceived valueEnvironmental knowledge
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Exploring the Compelling Components with Consumer Organic Food Purchase Intention and Intention Behavior Gap in Covid-19: Evidenced from Pakistan
iRASD Journal of Management
Consumers purchase intention
Organic food
Health consciousness
Cost
Perceived value
Environmental knowledge
title Exploring the Compelling Components with Consumer Organic Food Purchase Intention and Intention Behavior Gap in Covid-19: Evidenced from Pakistan
title_full Exploring the Compelling Components with Consumer Organic Food Purchase Intention and Intention Behavior Gap in Covid-19: Evidenced from Pakistan
title_fullStr Exploring the Compelling Components with Consumer Organic Food Purchase Intention and Intention Behavior Gap in Covid-19: Evidenced from Pakistan
title_full_unstemmed Exploring the Compelling Components with Consumer Organic Food Purchase Intention and Intention Behavior Gap in Covid-19: Evidenced from Pakistan
title_short Exploring the Compelling Components with Consumer Organic Food Purchase Intention and Intention Behavior Gap in Covid-19: Evidenced from Pakistan
title_sort exploring the compelling components with consumer organic food purchase intention and intention behavior gap in covid 19 evidenced from pakistan
topic Consumers purchase intention
Organic food
Health consciousness
Cost
Perceived value
Environmental knowledge
url https://www.journals.internationalrasd.org/index.php/jom/article/view/791
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