ECONOMICS OF DATES PRODUCTION AND MARKETING IN EL-FAYOUM GOVERNORATE | ||||
Fayoum Journal of Agricultural Research and Development | ||||
Article 37, Volume 23, Issue 2, July 2009, Page 138-153 PDF (387.51 K) | ||||
Document Type: Research articles. | ||||
DOI: 10.21608/fjard.2009.197110 | ||||
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Authors | ||||
Etemad Shaban Osman1; Sayed Salih Sayed Salah2 | ||||
1Assistant Lecturer, Economics Instit. ARC, Egypt. | ||||
2Professor of Agricultural Economics, Fac. of Agric., Fayoum Cairo Univ., Egypt. | ||||
Abstract | ||||
Palm trees are considered the most important economical trees which have high nutritional values. Egypt produces about 20.5% of the total world dates production (2007) and Fayoum Governorate represented a part from the total production of Egypt. It has been observed that the total production of palm dates has been considerably decreased. Consequently, by studying the date's production and marketing, some results have been clarified. The obtained results revealed that the Sewi variety was the highest in the economical efficiency, which it recorded to 8.5 for the farmer according to the cost/Benefit ratio measure in the study sample. However, it was found to be; 7.1, 4.4 and 10.8 in cases of direct selling in the market, selling to the merchands and storage, respectively, followed by Amhat and Baldi varieties, and then by Zaghlol variety (i.e., 0.96). Thus, Zaghlol variety represents the lowest economical efficiency for the palm dates in the farms and also for the production for one palm date tree. Accordingly, the study recommends the extention in Sewi variety planting and growing, more efficient role of the extension department, replacement and renewing the old palm dates farms and pests and insects control. In addition to grow good quality varieties with subsidizing industries them, solving the marketing problems and development the secondary products of palm trees from their branches and leaves. | ||||
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