COMPETITIVE CAPACITY OF EGYPTIAN RICE EXPORTS UNDER THE ECONOMIC REFORM POLICY | ||||
| Fayoum Journal of Agricultural Research and Development | ||||
| Article 20, Volume 23, Issue 1, January 2009, Page 73-88 PDF (432.14 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Research articles. | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/fjard.2009.197031 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| Alaa Ahmed Kotb; Gamal Alsayed Mohamed | ||||
| Agricultural Economics Research Institute | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| The study aims at highlighting the Egyptian rice exports. It highlights the relative importance of the Egyptian rice exports, the development of the quantity and value of rice exports, and investigating the competitive capacity within the international markets. It also investigates the statistical and economic estimations of the factors affecting the Egyptian rice exports and measures the economic stability of production, prices, and quantity and value of the exports during the period 1995-2006. The previously mentioned objectives will lead to recommendation for improving the competitive capacity in the international markets. The study has shown the following results: 1- The trends of the quantity and value of the Egyptian rice exports are increasing by 76300 tons and $20.2 millions with and annual growth of 14% and 13.3% respectively. 2- Egypt has a price competitive advantage where the average of relative price for ton in US dollars comparing to the world price, as an average of the study period, was 89.6%. 3- There is a high fluctuation and instability of the quantity and quality of the rice exports where the instability ratios for both indicators were estimated as 27.1% and 27.4% respectively. The average of instability ratio of local production and export price of rice were 4.6% and 9.1% respectively during the period 1995- 2006. 4- The results refer to the variation of Egyptian rice exporters' markets, in particular 16 markets, the total quantity exported to these markets were about 496800 tons represents about 86% of the total exports of rice which is about 546300 tons as an average of the period 1995-2006. By estimating the Gini Hirchman ratio of geographical concentration of the Egyptian rice exports, it's shown that he ratio is about 57.2% as an average of the period 1995-2006 which means that the rice exports is concentrated within certain markets since the ratio is more than 40% according to Hirchman. 5- The market share and market penetration ratios were estimated where the Sudanese market comes in the first rank followed by the Romanian, Syrian, and Cyprus Markets respectively. | ||||
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