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An economic study of the most important food crops gap in Egypt
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• Egyptian Journal of Agricultural Economics, Egyptian Association of Agricultural Economics, Vol.(27), No.(1), March 2017.
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An economic study of the most important food crops gap in Egypt
The problem of the study is the presence of food gap , which exacerbated year after year, in some major crops. This led to the depending of the Country on the outside to fill that gap. Our main targeted is to study the food gap in the most important staple crops in Egypt from various collections during the period (2000 2014) through :
1- Selected the crops subject of the study from the food groups. 2- Study the productive situation for crops under study.
3- Study the consumer food situation , the gap, and foreign trade for those crops.
4- Estimate the strategic reserves and coefficient of food security crops under study .
5- Identify the determinants of the food gap for crops under study.
The study found the following results:
- The crops subject of the study had been selected of different collections: the grain group, the Legumes group, oils group, and the sugar, based on their economic importance. Within the group, a wheat from grain group , beans from a range of legumes, soy oil from oils group and beet sugar from sugar group had been selected
-Regard the production status of the crops under study, The results pointed to the increasing in the planted area for wheat, soybeans and sugar beets during the study period, while decreasing in the cultivated area for beans during the same period. It also show the firming of productivity per acre of each crops during the study period around their arithmetic averages, while the total production of wheat, soybeans, and sugar beets, increased respectively, and decreased of the total production of beans.
- The results of the study of consumer situation , food gap and Foreign Trade of crops under study pointed to : increasing available for consumption of both wheat and soybeans and sugar beet crop, while decreasing available for consumption of beans during the study period has proved to be a moral both increase and decrease of the previous crop. While according to a study of the gap, it pointed to the increasing gap in both wheat , bean and soybean increased significantly during the study period except sugar beet which has been marked gap splendid by its stability on the arithmetic average during the study period. The results of the study of the evolution of self-sufficiency pointed out decreasing each of wheat and bean ratio, while observed the stability for soybean and sugar beet on average arithmetic during the study period. For the total imports of the crops, the study results has indicated the increasing in the overall imports of wheat and soybeans significantly , the decreasing in bean, and stability on the arithmetic average of beet sugar. While the results of the study of the evolution of the amount of exports ,it observed its increasing, during the study period , on wheat crop while its stability on bean, soybean and sugar beet on their arithmetic average.
- Regard the results of estimating coefficient of food security of the gap crops subject of the study, it was about (0.04, 0.07, 0.00008, 0.3) for each of wheat , bean, soybean, and sugar beet respectively ,where all values are close to zero, which gives an indication of the low level of food.
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2017
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مكتبة معهد بحوث الاقتصاد الزراعي-7 ش نادى الصيد - مبنى الهيئات والشركات - الدقي- الجيزة (الدور الرابع)
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القاهرة
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المجلة المصرية للاقتصاد الزراعي
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Production economics
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Journal
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