ESTIMATE OF THE TECHNICAL AND ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY OF THE MOST IMPORTANT AGRICULTURAL CROPS IN NORTH SINAI GOVERNORATE | ||||
| Fayoum Journal of Agricultural Research and Development | ||||
| Article 18, Volume 26, Issue 2, July 2012, Page 25-38 PDF (598.68 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Research articles. | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/fjard.2012.195023 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| Gaber A. Bassyouni1; Asem K. Abd El-Hamied2; Ryad I. Mostafa3 | ||||
| 1Faculty of Agriculture (Saba Basha), Alexandria University | ||||
| 2Faculty of Agriculture – Al Azhar University - Cairo | ||||
| 3Faculty of Invironmental Agricultural Sciences, (El-Arish) Seuz Canal University | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| The main objective of the research is studying access to use of economicresourdes available to produce some agricultural crops in North Sinai Governorate to raise the proportion of self-sufficiency of these crops by measuring the efficiency of technical and economic efficiency and estimate the size of the surplus or deficit in the resources used in the cultivation of crops in North Sinai Governorate. Descriptive and statistical analysis has been used to achieve the objectives of the research. The study depends on the secondary data, which collected from local sources during the study period. Aquestionannaire through personal interviews was used to collect data from (100) respondents randomly selected from villages of Governorate. The study showed when estimating the allocative efficiency for the production of peach crop, it was found that the average efficiency index allocative during the period (2002 – 2011) was about 92.9% in the case of Constant Returns to Scale (CRS),and about 98% in the case of Variable Return to Scale (VRS),which it means that proucers of peach crop can decrease the production cost of peach crop by 7.1% and 2% respectively and can produce the same level production quantity of peach crop. For olive crop, the average efficiency index distribution around 89.9% in the case of CRS and about 97.1% in the case of VRS. For bearly, winter tomatoes, summer tomatoes, alcantlob and palm crops, the average efficiency index distribution around 59.5% , 77.9% , 91.5% , 90.6% , and 63.3% in the case of CRS respectively, while in the case of VRS it was about 88.1% , 91% , 98.4% , and 99.8% respectively. Some recommendations from this research had been discussed to improve the technical and economic efficiency for agricultural production in North Sinai Governorate. | ||||
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