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An analytical study for production and marketing of the olive crop in Egypt (Case study in Matrouh governorate)

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Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

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Agricultural economics and extension

Abstract

The research aimed to study the production and marketing of the olive crop in Matrouh Governorate in Egypt. approach this objective, the research depends on the descriptive and quantitative statistical analysis methods in analyzing the data based on two types of data; published and unpublished secondary data, and the primary data collected through two questionnaires through personal interviews with olive producers, wholesalers, and retailers in Matrouh Governorate 2021/2022, where a Random sample of Olive crop producers has been captured from Siwa  (based on a 100 producers in the villages of Abu Shroff and Siwa, and a random sample of traders was selected, consisting of 25 wholesaling shops and 25 retailers who deal with wholesalers. The most important results of the search were as follows:(1) The total production elasticity in the estimated production function of the olive crop was about 0.963, which indicates that olive production is subject to decreasing returns to scale, (2) The economic efficiency coefficients of the olive crop production resources which are the number of human labor, the quantities used of municipal fertilizer, nitrogenous, phosphate, and potash are about 10.76, 1.46, 14.69, 17.09, and 8.32, respectively, and this indicates that the producers of the olive crop can increase the profits of the olive crop production by increasing the number of human labor, the quantities used from those resources, (3) The marketing efficiency of the olive crop in the research sample reached about 47.19%, which means that a decrease in the marketing efficiency and this is due to the lower price the producers get on from the price paid by the consumer.

DOI

10.21608/svuijas.2023.190486.1268

Keywords

Consumer pound distribution, economic efficiency, Marketing margin, Matrouh Governorate, olive, Production function

Authors

First Name

Doaa

Last Name

Mahmoud

MiddleName

H.I.

Affiliation

Economics and Agribusiness Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Alexandria University, 21545 Alexandria, Egypt.

Email

doaa.mahmoud@alexu.edu.eg

City

Alexandria

Orcid

0000-0001-6651-1266

First Name

M.F.

Last Name

El-Dnasury

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Agricultural Economics Research Institute, Agricultural Research Center A.R.C., 12511 Giza, Egypt

Email

mdnasury@gmail.com

City

Alexandria

Orcid

-

First Name

A.K.

Last Name

El-Noby

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Agricultural Economics Research Institute, Agricultural Research Center A.R.C., 12511 Giza, Egypt

Email

dralhussainennoby@gmail.com

City

Alexandria

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-

Volume

5

Article Issue

1

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39218

Issue Date

2023-01-01

Receive Date

2023-01-29

Publish Date

2023-01-01

Page Start

57

Page End

74

Print ISSN

2636-3801

Online ISSN

2636-381X

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https://svuijas.journals.ekb.eg/article_292847.html

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1,132

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Publication Title

SVU-International Journal of Agricultural Sciences

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https://svuijas.journals.ekb.eg/

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An analytical study for production and marketing of the olive crop in Egypt (Case study in Matrouh governorate)

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25 Dec 2024