ECONOMIC STUDY AN FOR MEASURING THE MOST IMPORTANT RELATIVE ADVANTAG OF TOMATOES CROP IN EGYPT | ||||
| Journal of Agricultural Economics and Social Sciences | ||||
| Article 5, Volume 31, Issue 4, April 2006, Page 2137-2148 PDF (671.72 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/jaess.2006.156748 | ||||
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| Author | ||||
| Z. M. Hussein | ||||
| Institute of Agricultural Economy Res., Agric. Res. Center. | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Tomatoes crOp is one of the most important vegetables crop in Egypt , that due to the wide cultivated areas with tomatoes , which represent more than 33% of the total area cultivated with vegetables in 2004‘ besides it is one of the exporting creps that contribute to increase foreign currency in case of developing tomatoes exports which estimated about 7.79 thousand tones in the period average (1998 — 2004). This research aims to studying the current productive situation of tomatoes in Egypt, also the current position of the exports to the external markets and their capacity ability as well as calculating the effective and nominal protection coefficients, financial profitability for the farmers and the state. The results indicated that the total production of tomatoes crop < /p> increased from about 3.79 million tonnes in 1991 to 7.83 million tonnes in 2004 with statistic moral annual growth rate about 4.33% during the study period (1991-2004) and the net feddan income increased from L.E 2549.9 during the first period (1991 — 1997) to L.E 3677.1 during the second period average (1998-2004) with increase rate 44.2%, meanwhile the spent pound profitability decreased from about L.E 1.25 in the first period to LE 1.17 in the second period . The results also indicated that there are 15 countries obtain the Egyptian tomatoes exports coming in the first, Saudi Arabia and Lebanon which obtained 71.38%. 17.88% of total Egyptian tomatoes exports which reached about 11.8 thousand tonnes in the first period meanwhile Saudi Arabia obtained about 87.03% from the exported quantity in the second period which was about 7.79 th0usand tonnes, next Kuwait with ratio 5.38%. By calculating the system of policies analysis for tomatoes crop with aim of measuring the protection of comparative advantage during the period average (1998-2004) , the results showed that the nominal protection coefficient of the crop reached about 0.5 . that means the tomatoes farmer in Egypt bears taxes and consumer subsidy. The nominal protection coefficient of production requisites reached about 0.92, that indicates reducing the prices of production requisites offered to tomatoes producers in Egypt than the world value and the effective production coefficient was estimated by 0.46. This assures that the tomatoes producer bears implicit taxes, so the indicator of local resources cost reflected existence of comparative advantage for Egypt in tomatoes crop < /p> production, as the value of this indicator is less than integral one (0.13) during the mentioned period. This indicates that the tomatoes producers bear costs of local resources less than one pound to generate incomes with value one pound. The results also showed an increase of economic profitability for the state than financial profitability for the farmer by 188.04% Finally. the research suggests the following: 1- Recognition of tomatoes exports obstacles to the external markets especially, the Arab countries such as Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Arab Emarates which can have capacity large quantities of the Egyptian tomatoes and trying to overcome these obstacles. 2- Activating the role between the state and the private sector to enhance the ability of tomatoes producers in the field of exporting for increasing their incomes on condition that quality assurance and improving marketing infrastructure, promoting trade between Egypt and the Arab states whereas those producers receive prices less than the world prices. | ||||
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