Economic Study of Desertification in Egypt | ||||
| Alexandria Science Exchange Journal | ||||
| Article 24, Volume 39, OCTOBER- DECEMBER - Serial Number 4, December 2018, Page 403-412 PDF (166.38 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/asejaiqjsae.2018.127111 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| Mahmoud El-Sharkawy* 1; Sherin Ahmed Sherif* 2; Hala Ali* 3 | ||||
| 1Agricultural Economics, Department of Economics and Agricultural Business Administration, College of Agriculture, University of Alexandria. | ||||
| 2Full-time Professor of Agricultural Economics, Department of Economics and Agricultural Business Administration, College of Agriculture, University of Alexandria. | ||||
| 3General Manager of the Egyptian Customs Authority | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Desertification is very briefly the transformation of agricultural land into non-agricultural land where it is lost, The nature of its agricultural economic mission. The problem is that the horizontal agricultural expansion in Egypt through the reclamation of the land is very limited, it does not exceed 37.3 thousand acres annually. The main objective of this research is to study the aspects of the research problem, namely the limited horizontal agricultural expansion, the exposure of the agricultural land to complete and partial desertification, the identification of the risks and the submission of proposals that help to solve the problem. the results and recommendations of the most important as followes: The total and partial desertification is estimated together through the study of the mobility of the Degrees and the violations by about 748,252 thousand standard acres and that compensation for this loss in agricultural land requires. Agricultural expansion horizontally through the reclamation of land in Egypt is very limited and does not exceed 37.7 thousand acres annually and the total reclamation does not exceed only 6.12% of the target in land reclamation plans. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Desertification; The animator; Ranks | ||||
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