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AN ECONOMIC STUDY ON THE PRODUCTION OF TANGERINE CROP IN NORTH SINAI GOVERNORATE

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Last updated: 25 Dec 2024

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Agricultural Economics and Rural Development

Abstract

Citrus is one of the most important fruit crops grown in Egypt, as it occupies the first rank of the fruitful area, the problem the related to citrus and tangerine crop (Calmentina) specian, which is crop of the study where it has many problems such as high production costs and low net returns, and the research aims to study the current production situation of tangerine crop in Egypt and North Sinai Governorate, study relied in achieving its objectives on secondary and primary data, results showed that average total area amounted to 107.3 thousand feddan, while the average fruitful area amounted to 96.4 thousand feddan, and average feddan productivity amounted to about 8.3 tons/ acre. Average total production amounted to 785 thousand ton, while the number of sample farms reached 140 farms, and the average share of holder was about 1.20 feddan. Average number of trees per acre has reached 208 trees. Average productivity of the tree was 57.3 kg/ year, while the average productivity of an acre was 8.28 ton/ year, and the relative impact of the production elements was studied, which are chemical fertilizers, organic fertilizers, fungicides and insecticides, human labor and number of automated working hours. Economic analysis of production and cost functions for tangerine crop was also estimated. Study recommends increasing the number of trees per feddan and applying chemical and organic fertilization programs while providing hired human labor.

DOI

10.21608/sinjas.2021.86822.1034

Keywords

Tangerine crop, Economic study, Production functions, Cost functions, North Sinai Governorate

Authors

First Name

Sayed

Last Name

Abd El-Aziz

MiddleName

S.

Affiliation

Fac. Agric. Ain Shams Univ., Egypt.

Email

s01001717442@gmail.com

City

Cairo

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First Name

Soad

Last Name

Ibrahim

MiddleName

A.

Affiliation

Dept. Econ. and Rural Develop., Fac. Environ. Agric. Sci., Arish Univ., Egypt.

Email

suad.abdelfattah@agri.aru.edu.eg

City

Ismailia

Orcid

-

First Name

Ragab

Last Name

Hefny

MiddleName

M.

Affiliation

Dept. Econ. and Rural Develop., Fac. Environ. Agric. Sci., Arish Univ., Egypt.

Email

hefny.ragab@yahoo.com

City

Giza

Orcid

0000-0002-1280-8512

First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

Rehan

MiddleName

K.

Affiliation

Dept. Econ., Fac. Agric., Ain Shams Univ., Egypt.

Email

dr.mrihan2000@gmail.com

City

Cairo

Orcid

-

Volume

10

Article Issue

2

Related Issue

28665

Issue Date

2021-08-01

Receive Date

2021-07-23

Publish Date

2021-08-01

Page Start

237

Page End

252

Print ISSN

2314-6079

Online ISSN

2682-3527

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https://sinjas.journals.ekb.eg/article_199669.html

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1,210

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Publication Title

Sinai Journal of Applied Sciences

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https://sinjas.journals.ekb.eg/

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AN ECONOMIC STUDY ON THE PRODUCTION OF TANGERINE CROP IN NORTH SINAI GOVERNORATE

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Created At

22 Jan 2023