Economics of Sugar Beet in Kafr El-Sheikh Governorate | ||||
| Journal of Sustainable Agricultural Sciences | ||||
| Article 10, Volume 47, Issue 1, March 2021, Page 109-118 PDF (2.92 MB) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/jsas.2020.41172.1233 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
Mahmoud Fawaz1; Rushdi Al-Adawi1; Munira S. Al-Khouly   2
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| 1Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, Kafr El Sheikh University | ||||
| 2Agricultural Research Center - Institute of Field Crops | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| THE RESEARCH aims mainly to study the economic efficiency of using resources in producing sugar beet in Kafr El-Sheikh Governorate, and to estimate the optimal volume of production and its bulk of profits. The research relied on published and unpublished secondary data and field data for a random sample that was collected during the 2019/2020 production season, using a personal interview questionnaire, using a descriptive and inferential analysis of the data and estimating some indicators of productive and economic efficiency.The results indicated that there is an effect of each area, human labor, nitrogen fertilizer, phosphate fertilizer, potassium fertilizer and the value of pesticides on sugar beet production in Kafr El- Sheikh Governorate, as indicated by the estimation of the functions of sugar beet costs in Kafr El-Sheikh Governorate that the optimal volume of production for the three groups, respectively 24.50, 24.2 and 24.75 and the optimum capacity, respectively, is 1.05, 1.25 and 1.54 acres, and the volume of maximum production profits was estimated at 25.05, 25.4 and 25.55 tons / acre. The necessity of rationalizing the use of potassium fertilizer for the first category fields, as it became clear that increasing this resource by 10% would lead to a decrease in productivity by about 1.6% of it due to its negative marginal productivity.Working to rationalize the use of human labor for the second category farmers, as it was found that an increase in human labor by 10% leads to a decrease of 4.9% in the output.Rationalizing the use of potassium fertilizers, the value of pesticides, as it was found that increasing each of them by about 10% leads to a decrease in the output by 18.3% and 8.6%. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Technological efficiency; price efficiency; economic efficiency; Kafr El Sheikh; the optimum volume of production; the maximum volume of profits | ||||
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