EGYPTIAN AGRICULTURAL FOREIGN TRADE AND ITS IMPACT ON WATER RESOURCES | ||||
| Fayoum Journal of Agricultural Research and Development | ||||
| Article 21, Volume 25, Issue 2, July 2011, Page 59-73 PDF (517.98 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Research articles. | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/fjard.2011.195650 | ||||
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| Author | ||||
| Momtaz Nagy Mohamed Elsebai | ||||
| Agricultural Economic Department, Fac. of Agric., Ain Shams Univ. | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Foreign trade is the most important sectors of agricultural trade effectively affecting to guide the production activities in the agricultural sector, and the Egyptian agricultural sector occupies the bulk of the water uses on the national level, where agricultural water requirements amounted to about 59.3 billion m3 in 2002, representing 85.6% of the total uses water in Egypt. Hence, it was striving to take advantage of water resources. therefore the problem of research in trying to export-orientation to reflect the scarcity of water resources and raise the efficiency of use. The study aimed to identify the structure of foreign trade of Egyptian agricultural export and import activities and to shed light on the nature of water trading, Research methodology based on descriptive and analytical approach using some of the descriptive statistical measures. To achieve the objectives of the research has been assembled items of foreign trade in the two groups the first is plant production, and the second the category of food artifacts, Were estimated as the area necessary for the production of goods exports and imports on average for the period (2004-2008). It turned out that there is a deficit in the trade balance quantification of the groups production plant was about 8193 thousand tons, as it became clear that there is a deficit in the following commodity groups are seeds, cereals and its preparations, oilseeds, pulses, coffee, tea and cocoa, where the deficit to 156, 8269, 552, 462, 94 thousand tons respectively. While other groups have made some quantity trade balance surplus, in groups of sugar and its products, fruit, fresh vegetables and onions, fiber, fodder and branches, medicinal and aromatic plants, and live plants where the quantity of the surplus for these groups about 142, 275, 696, 39, 41, 15, 24 thousand tons respectively, the average for the period (2004-2008). With regard to the food artifacts category was also clear that a deficit in quantitative agricultural trade balance amounted to 673 thousand tons, where groups fruits, preserved vegetables and their products, citrus fruits and other have gained surplus amounted to 100, 2 thousand tons, respectively, when the group oil and margarine recorded a deficit about 775 thousand tons during the average period (2004- 2008). As it turned out that to cover the deficit in groups of plant production necessitate a cropping area is estimated at 3645 thousand feddan, and provide the amount of default of about 7307 million m3. As for the food artifacts groups it was found that necessitate a cropping area is estimated at 756 thousand feddan, and provide the amount of virtual water be estimated at 2065 billion m3 to fill this deficit. In addition, calculates the ratio of exports of agricultural imports, including the rate was about 39.7%. In estimating the ratio of exports to imports of water is estimated at 24.9%, which means that the commodity composition of export trade in relation to the commodity composition of import trade is working towards better use of water resources. | ||||
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