AN ECONOMIC STUDY TO INCREASE THE EGYPTI~N EXPORTS OF ORANGES | ||||
Journal of Agricultural Economics and Social Sciences | ||||
Article 4, Volume 28, Issue 6, June 2003, Page 4557-4570 PDF (484.14 K) | ||||
Document Type: Original Article | ||||
DOI: 10.21608/jaess.2003.243596 | ||||
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Author | ||||
S. M. M. EL- Sisi, | ||||
Agriculture Economic Institute, Agriculture Research Center | ||||
Abstract | ||||
Orange is corsidered as one of the most inportant good in the Egyptian Agriculture as its exports 10.6% of the total Agricultural e ports in the mean time of the period 1988-2001. Its exports are charactrlse by flactutation in instability from one year to another inspite of the inc rea e in the cultivated land and nutritinal productivity. The results of the study show \hat the Egyptian production is ranked as the fourth among the countries producling oranges. II is calculated as 2.58% of the total international production and Its amount is 5.904 Million TOil, Spain, U.S.A, and south Africa are ranked- as the top countries exporting oranges at the ratios 21.03%, 8.21 %, 7.12 of the total international exports in the same period, however Egypt comes at the eights rank as it is 1.75% of the total exports. I The study shows that \he amount of orange exports is 15.2"10 of the total Egyptian production, Saudi Arbia, Russa, Hong kong, U.K, United Arab Emarate and Kwait are the most important markets of Egyptian E1xports of orange with the ratio of 14.97%, 11.44%, 9.46%, 2.29%, 9.08%, 2.5% of the totaf imports of those counteries. Thus shows the low value of Egyptian exports to these countries in spite of the big capacity of their markets. | ||||
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