An economic estimation to the exact and desired as well as the efficient criteria of the Egyptian agricultural investment

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 کلية الزراعة جامعة دمياط

2 Agricultural Economics Department, Faculty of Ariculture, Kafrelsheikh University.

3 معهد بحوث الاقتصاد الزراعي

Abstract

The agricultural investments considered to be sustainable the vital push for the agricultural development in Egypt, because the rate of the agricultural sector in creating many job opportunities and it helps in rising the self sufficient of needs and reducing the imported food bills, despite this importance, It suffers the lack of investment where the ratio of the investments in these sector has decreased from 12.62% in year2000 to about 4.93% in 2020, The main results are: The rate of the average value of agricultural investments has reaches about 14.92 million L.E. during 2000-2020 at current price, but it reached about 269.8 million L.E. for the non-agricultural investment during the same period to the total investments has decreased from 12.62% in 2000 to 4.93 in 2020, and The index number of the governmental reached about 0.47 which revealed the biased mean of the investment policy against the agricultural sector. The study recommends the following aspects: A big push must be given to the agricultural sector to increases contribution to the national domestic growth, and The private sector must be encouraged towards the agricultural sector mainly the several societies, as well as the growth of Egypt and all obstacles facing the private sector must be recommended this will help in creating of new job opportunities and increasing food sufficiency level in Egypt.

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