The Role of Agricultural Cooperatives in Potato Production and Marketing

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• M. Sc. in Agricultural Science (Agricultural Economics), Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, Ain Shams University, 2006.
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The production and Marketing of Potatoes Crop in Egypt meets with a lot of problems and in Capability in using the optimum use of the productive Factors ,Resulting in Waste of those Factors without any benefit , increase of production costs and decrease of Farmer outcome the end of season in addition to increase of Seeds price , lack of selected seeds , and shortage of potatoes Finance .
The Co-operatives became incapable of insure its Economic and social aims .
The study based on qualitative methods to describe the Co-operative structure in Egypt , specialized societies in producing and marketing potatoes crop, and use of the methods of quantitative statistical analysis to analyze the directional Relations between variables affecting in potatoes crop production in addition to study a potatoes Farmers group in Behira Governorate, and the study Relied on many sources of data Either published or not .
-The study included 4 sections, and the First one is divided to 2 chapters, the First chapter allocated to deal with Researches and studies Regarding the study object with Reviewing the results and Recommendations . the second allocated to some of theoretical concepts Regarding production and Marketing a potatoes crop .
-The second section contains 3 chapters ,the first one considering the historical Development of Co-operatives in A.R.E while the second is deadens with the Role of Agricultural Co-operatives structure and its Agricultural societies Functions. the third considering the study of Co-operatives Roland specialized societies in production and Marketing a potatoes crop .
-Section 3 allocated to study of Development of the most important Economic Variable of potatoes crop in A.R.E between 1990-2004 as Cultivated area, productivity ,and productivity per feddan in addition to the production costs, farm price and net return according to current price .
-Section 4 allocated to a measurement of the production factors level through studding 50 farmers ,and the second part Reviewed the problems of production and Marketing a potatoes crop in study sample .

The study Recommended
1) Structuring the Agricultural Co-operative according To current variables.
2) Financing the Agricultural Co-operative through insuring the necessary Fund.
3) Studding of Demand ,Supply ,international prices and competitive counties.
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Publication year 2006
Pages 1 - 278
Availability location مكتبة معهد بحوث الاقتصاد الزراعي-7 ش نادى الصيد - مبنى الهيئات والشركات - الدقي- الجيزة (الدور الرابع)
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Country Egypt
Publisher Name: كلية الزراعة - جامعة عين شمس
Place: القاهرة - مصر
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Publication Type Master Thesis