Economic Analysis for the Production Of Sugar in Egypt
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• Egyptian Journal of Agricultural Economics, Egyptian Association of Agricultural Economics, Vol. (26), No. (3), September 2016.
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Sugar production in Egypt depends on the crop cane and sugar beet. Due to the limitations of appropriate agricultural area with favorable climatic conditions on the one hand and the limited water resources on the other hand, while the total demand for sugar is increasing and because sugar cane is the main crop for the production of sugar in Egypt, as well as to the growing interest in crop sugar beet crop for the production of additional sugar, it was necessary to conduct an analytical study of the production of sugar in Egypt during the period (2000 - 2014) through:
1- A comparative study of the economics of crop production cane and beet sugar per space ,the productivity per acre,the total production costs ,the net return per acre , the net return Pound investor and the net return per unit of water at current prices.
2- Study of the current performance of the sugar factories and manufacturing efficiency of the energy available to determine the reasons for failure of local production of sugar to cover the actual needs of consumption and whether was due to reasons concerning the manufacture of sugar or local production of it.
3- Identify the gap sugary and Self-sufficiency ratio of sugar in Egypt.
The results of the study showed that the direction of the total production of sugar cane has been explained to the increase but it is uncertain Statistically. Also it showed the direction of the total production of sugar beet increasing by a statistically significant increase at an annual rate of about 10.1% of the total production of sugar beet during the study period which was about 5182.73 thousand tons. It also showed the direction of net return per acre production of sugar cane is increasing by a statistically significant increase at an annual rate of about 14.3% of the average net return per acre production of sugar cane during the study period whish was about 5135.5 thousand tons, the net return per acre production of sugar beet also tended to increase by a statistically significant and an increase of approximately 12.9% of the average net return per acre production of sugar beet which was about 2605.5 pounds, The net return Fairy investor in the production of sugar cane crop increased by a statistically significant and growing at an annual rate of about 8.9% of the average net return Fairy investor in the production of sugar cane crop which was about 0.9 pounds, The net return pound invested in the production of sugar beet crop increased by a statistically significant and an average annual increase of about 6.7% of the average net return pound invested in the production of sugar beet crop which was of about 0.9 pounds.
The results of the study showed that the productive efficiency of the sugar industry in Egypt exploit the annual energy of cane sugar factories stood at about 56% on average during the study period, while amounted to about 95.6% of the beet sugar factories during the same period . The average operational efficiency of cane sugar factories during the study period was about 85.3%, which indicates the presence of the energies Off on the factories of cane sugar, which must be in the state of full exploitation. The results also showed a large leak in production came up to 44% of production. The average operational efficiency of beet sugar factories amounted to about 90.5% during the study period and the leak in the production of the sugar beet crop was estimated at 4.4%.
The results of the study sugary gap and Self-sufficiency ratio in Egypt showed that the gap amounted to be 752.2 thousand tons in the average during the study period and that the self-sufficiency ratio was estimated at 69.7%. Also showed that the contribution of sugar cane production in the sugar production was 63.5%, while the proportion of the contribution of the sugar beet production was 36.5% on average during the study period.
In light of the findings of the study results, we recommend the following:
1- Working to increase the productivity per acre by devising a highly productive varieties of sugar cane, as well as imported varieties of sugar beet with high production.
2- Work to provide input prices to suit the capacities of farmers, agricultural pest resistance.
3- Drawing cane and beet production policy based on linking prices to the cost of production per ton to optimize the return to the farmer.
4- Interconnection between the cultivation of sugar cane harvest, and harvest beets so that integration in their agriculture lands to be one productivity unit working to increase self-sufficiency in sugar rate in Egypt.
5- Take advantage of the by-products of sugar cane remanufactured in unites attached to the sugar factories, raising the yield of the material.
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Publication year 2016
Pages 1489 - 1506
Availability location مكتبة معهد بحوث الاقتصاد الزراعي-7 ش نادى الصيد - مبنى الهيئات والشركات - الدقي- الجيزة (الدور الرابع)
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serial title المجلة المصرية للاقتصاد الزراعى
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