Egypt Sufficiency of the Main Plant Food Oils and its Availability in Unstable World | ||||
| Assiut Journal of Agricultural Sciences | ||||
| Article 27, Volume 56, Issue 2, April 2025, Page 390-410 PDF (787.46 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/ajas.2025.349899.1451 | ||||
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| Author | ||||
Rami A. Abd El Hafiz 
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| Department of Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt. | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| The study aims to determine the self-sufficiency rate of oils and thus the extent of the need to import them, and what it requires in terms of studying the most important export markets in light of unstable global conditions, in a way that ensures the availability of these imports on the one hand, and reduces the cost of the import bill on the other hand. Based on both the descriptive and quantitative analytical methods of the phenomena under study, the results showed that the output of cottonseed oil from its local seeds contributes about 70% of the total output, which reflects the urgent need to increase the role of other sources of local oil output. The study showed that Egypt's imports of palm oil and sunflower oil together represent more than three-quarters of the total oils studied, while imports of soybean, corn and cottonseed oils combined did not achieve a quarter of oil imports. At the export market level, it was found that palm oil exports occupy about 64% of the global market capacity compared to capacities of 20%, 14%, 2.2% and 3% for each of soybean, sunflower, corn and cottonseed oils, respectively. Some scenarios were proposed, which the study recommends using what is appropriate for the different global conditions. And ensures the provision of Egyptian imports at the lowest cost. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Egyptian imports; Global exports; Self-sufficiency; Vegetable oils | ||||
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