Economic Study to Expand Greenhouses on The Green Pepper Production

Document Type : Original Article

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1 Department of Agric. Econm, Faculty of Agric.,Kafr El-Sheikh Univ.

2 Department of Agric. Econm, Faculty of Agric.,Damietta Univ.

Abstract

Egypt is seeking to expand the construction of greenhouses as one of the axes of the policy of vertical expansion, For these reasons, the research paper is mainly aims at reviewing the present and expected situation of pepper greenhouse concerning average production and productivity, Qualitative and quantitative methods were utilized to achieve the study purpose, such as, probabilistic models of Data Envelopment Analysis, as well as exponential Function to estimate the growth rates, Primary data through a questionnaire of 45 greenhouses of pepper was collected from Kafr El-Sheikh governorate in addition to secondary data collected from ministry of Agriculture, The main results of the study can be Summarized as follows: The annual growth rate of greenhouse for pepper production has reached about 16% at period (2003-2015), and the average productivity of pepper greenhouse is higher than the open fields by about 6.81 once, The economic efficiency for greenhouse of pepper crop, has revealed about 91.10% for scale of more than 500 squared meters compared with 87.50% for less than 500 squared meters, Increasing the expansion of agricultural green housing to produce pepper, through increasing the acreage by about 25% will increase the production can be doubled, that will increase the production by about 114%, For policy makers the study recommended the necessity to expand the numbers and acreage of the greenhouses of pepper in Egypt because they are more efficient compared with the open fields, this requires increasing the financial funds to farmers and investors.

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  • Receive Date: 05 September 2018
  • Revise Date: 04 December 2018
  • Accept Date: 22 November 2018

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