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Economic Evaluation of Some Plant Protection Methods
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• M. Sc. in Agricultural Science (Agricultural Economics): Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, Banha University, 2011.
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Agricultural production is regarded, by all means, as a major pillar in the national production structure. Pests and agricultural diseases are exclusively of undesirable quantitative and qualitative impact on agricultural production. Escalating reliance on chemicals for pest and plant diseases control has generated intensive pollution and biological imbalance plus higher cost of production. This deteriorated situation pushes towards less chemicals and adoption of biological and integrated control.
The objective of this study is to set up an economic evaluation for some plant protection programs and methods. Focus was directed to chemical control, as the biggest applied method.
This study contains five chapters plus an introduction which includes the problem, objective, methodology and sources of data.
Recommendations:
1) Cost of chemical control explains 37%, 27%, 49% and 22% of changes in cotton, seedless orange, summer tomatoes and summer potatoes respectively. Measurements of economic and production worthiness put much emphasis on the role played by chemical control in production of the four crops. Net return per L.E. paid in control process reached about 4.8, 12.55, 2.8 and 19.6 for the four crops respectively. The study recommends strongly to abide by the pesticides certified by MOA. It also calls for expansion in pesticides made from plant origin for safety reasons.
2) Cotton and summer tomatoes receives intensive non – economic doses. The study recommends to put new economic doses to bring cost down with no adverse impact on production. Economic worthiness of pesticides in seedless orange and summer potatoes reached 1.25 and 10.42 successively. It is recommended to increase pesticides units to raise production up to the economic level.
3) The most effective factors in production were mechanized labor, human labor phosphates fertilizer and pesticides for cotton crop. With respect seedless orange, factors were number of trees , mechanized labor, human labor, phosphates , potassium and pesticides. As for summer tomatoes factors were manure, human labor, nitrogenous fertilizer and foliar fertilizer. Concerning summer potatoes factors were manure, nitrogenous fertilizer and pesticides respectively. Supply of those materials in the proper proportions is a must.
4) Agricultural extension services should raise the awareness of farmers towards hazards of the over use of chemicals.
5) Dealers of pesticides should be of high efficiency and of big knowledge in the field of pesticides.
6) Put much emphasis on developing control techniques and methods and pay much attention to safety measures.
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2011
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مكتبة معهد بحوث الاقتصاد الزراعي-7 ش نادى الصيد - مبنى الهيئات والشركات - الدقي- الجيزة (الدور الرابع)
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Egypt
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كلية الزراعة - جامعة بنها
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بنها - القليوبية - مصر
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Master Thesis
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