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A Comparative Economic Analysis of The Most Important Economic Indicators of Contractual and Non-contractual Farming of Potato Crop

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Last updated: 03 Jan 2025

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Economic

Abstract

Due to the lack of integration between the production and marketing processes in the agricultural sector in general and potato crop in particular, which makes small farmers unable to optimize the marketing of their products Which requires the search for a marketing system that ensures farmers to market their crops, which requires the interest of this research to identify the economics of contract farming and to identify the most important advantages and disadvantages of the contractual system of potato crop. The research was based on a number of research methods, including descriptive and quantitative methods of the variables studied and the study of production costs. The research relied on two sources of data: the primary data is through a questionnaire questionnaire collected by personal interview; secondary data published and unpublished. The research aims at conducting a comparative economic analysis between Contractual and non-contractual farming of the study crop, and to identify farmers 'views on the advantages and disadvantages of contract farming and the reasons for farmers' reluctance to do so ,The results indicate that the net yield of potato crop contractual and non-contractual about 7018,092 pounds, 6090,243 pounds respectively The research recommended contracting cost sharing contracts in which the duties and rights of the parties to the contract are determined, the contracting parties' commitment to the terms of the contract, the dates of delivery of the production requirements and the receipt of the crop, the necessity of providing regular guidance services to the farmers

DOI

10.21608/jsas.2019.11123.1141

Keywords

agriculture, Contractual, Potatoes, analysis, Economical, Comparative, advantages, Disadvantages

Authors

First Name

Mahmoud

Last Name

Fawaz

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Department of Agricultural Economics,Faculty of Agriculture,Kafrelsheikh University , Egypt

Email

drmfawaz@yahoo.com

City

kafrelshiskh

Orcid

-

First Name

Hoda

Last Name

Ragab

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Head of Research, Agricultural Economics Research Institute, Agricultural Research Center

Email

hoda_ragab@hotmail.com

City

kafrelshiskh

Orcid

-

First Name

Roshdy

Last Name

Eladawy

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Department of Agricultural Economics,Faculty of Agriculture,Kafrelsheikh University , Egypt

Email

osama_roshdy1@yahoo.com

City

kafrelshiskh

Orcid

-

First Name

Hader

Last Name

Etman

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Department of Agricultural Economics,Faculty of Agriculture,Kafrelsheikh University , Egypt

Email

haderetman664@yahoo.com

City

egypt

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-

Volume

45

Article Issue

3

Related Issue

7650

Issue Date

2019-09-01

Receive Date

2019-03-25

Publish Date

2019-09-01

Page Start

163

Page End

173

Print ISSN

2536-9571

Online ISSN

2536-958X

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https://jsas.journals.ekb.eg/article_37697.html

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Original Research Paper

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398

Publication Type

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Publication Title

Journal of Sustainable Agricultural Sciences

Publication Link

https://jsas.journals.ekb.eg/

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A Comparative Economic Analysis of The Most Important Economic Indicators of Contractual and Non-contractual Farming of Potato Crop

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Created At

22 Jan 2023