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Determinants and Socio-Economic effects of Agricultural Mechanization in Egypt
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• M. Sc. in Agricultural Science: Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, Kafr El Sheikh University, Egypt, 1994.
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The research aimed to study the economic effects and social determinants of the use of agricultural mechanization and its impact on production costs and on agricultural output in some villages of Kafr El Sheikh governorate under the use of two different methods of agricultural mechanization, the first of which is intensive mechanization, which means full use of machinery and mechanical equipment in all stages of agricultural operations, and the second is The use of partial mechanization, which means the partial use of machinery and equipment in preparing the seed and irrigation shed, and the governorate of Kafr El-Sheikh was chosen to conduct this research due to its relative importance in the production of rice and wheat crops and the existence of two agricultural mechanization stations in Sakha and Mitt al-Dibah, which are considered one of the largest agricultural mechanization stations at the level of the Republic.The research relied on sectoral data and preliminary data for a stratified random sample of 160 farmers from among the rice and wheat farmers from four villages, namely Al-Taifa and Al-Kafr Al-Jadid belonging to Kafr El-Sheikh Center, and the villages of Al-Bakatoush and Al-Ghanimi belonging to the Qaleen Center. This sample represents about 10% of the number of farmers in each village. In the agricultural season 90/1991.
It was found that the labor force in Egyptian agriculture is increasing at an annual rate of about 36 thousand workers, representing about 0.84% of the average workforce, and it has also been observed that the share of the agricultural worker in the cultivated area in Egypt has decreased at an annual rate of about 0.014, representing about 0.95% of the average share of the agricultural worker. It was also found that the number of tractors in Egyptian agriculture increased by about 8.5% of the average total number of agricultural tractors, and an annual average increase of about 14.5 million pounds, representing about 20.89% of the average value of agricultural mechanization loans, was found. It was also found that the strongest independent variables affecting the mechanization of rice are the age of the farmer, followed by the educational status and contact with agricultural extension. As for wheat, it was represented in the use of modern agricultural methods, contact with agricultural extension, then the level of family education, followed by family permanent agricultural employment, and the optimum output of rice was about 3.28 tons. The bulk of the profit was 4.7 tons, the optimum yield of wheat was 14 ardebs, and the bulk of the profit was 26.6 ardebs.
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1994
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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 كفر السيخ
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كفر السيخ - مصر
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Master Thesis
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