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AN ECONOMIC STUDY OF PRODUCTION AND COSTS OF OLIVE CROP IN NORTH SINAI GOVERNORATE

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Last updated: 25 Dec 2024

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Agricultural Economics and Rural Development

Abstract

Olive crop is one of the important fruit crops, and it is conceder  an important nutritional component, used to extract the best nutritional and healthful vegetable oils, as olive oil is called green gold. North Sinai Governorate is one of the promising governorates for olive production, as this crop occupies the first rank in the list of crop composition for horticultural crops. The research aims to study the productive and economic efficiency, evaluate the performance of olive farms, During the study of the results, the average total area in Egypt reached about 184.6 thousand feddans during the period 2000-2017. The average area of ​​the fruit trees was about 137,1 thousand feddans, the average productivity per acre was about 4.1 ton, and the average total production was about 557.3 thousand ton. When studying the relative importance of olives in North Sinai Governorate during 2017, it was found that the average fruitful area in Bir El-Abed was about 6.7 thousand feddans, in Rafah it amounted to 5.1 thousand feddans, and in Sheikh Zuweid amounted to 4.6 thousand feddans. In El-Arish amounted to 10.2 thousand feddans, in Al-Hasana amounted to about 1.9 thousand feddans, and in Nakhl amounted to 0.59 thousand feddans. As for the total sample, it amounted to 28.96 thousand feddans, and the statistical estimate of the production functions and costs of the olive crop was studied within the various tenure categories. The research also recommends replace large and low-yielding trees, planting disease-resistant varieties.

DOI

10.21608/sinjas.2021.93060.1045

Keywords

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

Authors

First Name

Ahmed

Last Name

Nofal

MiddleName

F.

Affiliation

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

Email

ahmedfouadn@yahoo.com

City

South Sinai

Orcid

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First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

ElSayed

MiddleName

A.

Affiliation

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

Email

melsayed@aru.edu.eg

City

New Cairo

Orcid

0000-0003-3738-2535

First Name

Reyad

Last Name

Radwan

MiddleName

I.

Affiliation

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

Email

adyismail@gmail.com

City

North Sinai

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

Egypt

Orcid

0000-0002-1280-8512

Volume

10

Article Issue

3

Related Issue

30131

Issue Date

2021-12-01

Receive Date

2021-08-28

Publish Date

2021-12-01

Page Start

521

Page End

534

Print ISSN

2314-6079

Online ISSN

2682-3527

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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 OF PRODUCTION AND COSTS OF OLIVE CROP IN NORTH SINAI GOVERNORATE

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22 Jan 2023