THE ROLE OF AGRARIAN REFORM COOPERATIVES IN THE COTTON MARKETING IN EL-BEHARA GOVERNORTE | ||||
| Egyptian Journal of Agricultural Research | ||||
| Article 20, Volume 93, Issue 1, March 2015, Page 295-334 PDF (943.42 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejar.2015.153561 | ||||
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| Author | ||||
| YEHIA ABD . YEHIA | ||||
| Agricultural Economics Research Institute, ARC, Giza, Egypt | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| cotton and its products occupy a prominent place in Egyptian economy especially in aspects like production, industrialization, consumption and foreign trade. Marketing of cotton in Egypt is surrounded with a lot of problems, especially in light of the inability of domestic production to meet the needs of the domestic textile industry of short staple cotton. Thus cotton imports are growing rapidly in order to cover this deficit. Marketing systems are characterized with low efficiency and poor performance. This study attempts to analyze the cotton marketing system in order to determine the nature of the marketing problems and their ramifications on both producers and consumers of Egyptian cotton. In addition the study spells out the roles of different intermediaries and concludes with possible recommendations that could help improve the cotton marketing system. The study focuses on the role of the Agrarian Reform Cooperatives in marketing the cotton crop of small farmers that benefit from the laws of agrarian reform laws that were issued in the 1950s and 1960s. The study relied on secondary data as well as on primary data that were collected using a structured questionnaire. El-Behara governorate was chosen to conduct thefield study because it has the largest number of Agrarian Reform Cooperatives nationwide. The questionnaire covered 100 small farmers from different regions in the governorate. The results of the field study shows that the most prevalent marketing problems facing cotton farmers in the agrarian reform cooperatives are: the low price of cotton; high production costs and the long distance between the marketing collection centers and the cotton fields and consequently high transportation costs. In fact the study reveals that the Agrarian Reform Cooperatives have no role whatsoever in marketing the cotton crop. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| ROLE OF AGRARIAN; EL-BEHARA GOVERNORTE | ||||
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