An Economic Study on Water Allocation to Achieve Food Security in Egypt
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The Egyptian Water Technology Association (EWTA). March 12-15, 2009. Published in Edition (3), ISBN: 978-911-482-7, Hurghada, Egypt.
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The economic exploitation of agricultural resources is one of the main goals of agricultural policy to achieve sustainable agricultural development. On the other hand, the method of linear programming is one of the most important mathematical techniques designed to distribute economic resources among alternative uses so as to achieve the optimal use. Accordingly, this study aims at characterizing the cropping patterns that maximizes the net return per feddan, minimizes water requirements and maximizes the net return per water unit for the cropping pattern of the year 2006. To accomplish the study main goals, three linear programming models were applied as a tool for economic planning.
The main objectives of these scenarios are maximizing the total net revenues for the cropping pattern calculated, maximizing the total net revenues for the cropping pattern, minimizing water irrigation requirements, and maximizing the total net revenues for the cropping pattern in case of achieving higher self-sufficiency ratios for the major crops.
The results of solving the linear programming models for the cropping pattern found out that the optimum combination of crops can be produced according to the third scenario, since it achieves an increase in the total net revenue for the cropping pattern of about 0.13%. Moreover, it saves about 4.28% of the water irrigation, as well as achieving greater return per unit of water resources of about 4,61% as compared to those achieved by the cropping pattern of the year 2006 in addition to achieving suitable self-sufficiency ratios of most major crops.
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Publication year 2009
Pages 569 - 587
Availability location www.iwtc.info/2009_pdf/7-4.pdf
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City Hurghada, Egypt
serial title The Thirteenth International Water Technology Conference (IWTC’09)
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ISSN ISBN: 978-911-482-7
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    محمد يوسف سلطان معهد بحوث الاقتصاد الزراعى - مركز البحوث الزراعية
Publication Type Conference/Workshop
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