Economic efficiency of rice production in Kafr El-Sheikh Governorate

Document Type : Original Article

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1 Department of Agricultural Economics Fac. of Agriculture , Kafr El-Sheikh Uni.

2 معهد البحوث الزراعية

3 قسم الاقتصاد الزراعى - کلية الزراعة جامعة کفر الشيخ

Abstract

The research was mainly aimed at studying the economic and technological efficiency of using resources in the production of summer rice crops. The results showed a decrease in the area under cultivation and rice production in Egypt during the period 2000–209 with a statistical annual statistical decrease of 1.4%, 1.5% each respectively, while the statistical The results of the production indexation showed that the productive flexibility of the resources of both human work, Automation, nutro fertilizer, and phosphate fertilizer are positive, with productivity flexibility: 2.178, 0.886 0, 0.221 and 0.048 per cent respectively.An increase of these elements by 10% results in the acoustic The economics of both human work, labour, nutro fertilizer, phosphate fertilizer were positive, with an estimated 23.792, 11.011.4.526, 4.225 each respectively, indicating that farmers have increased their production by increasing the use of those resources. While the economic efficiency of the seeding element was found to be negative, it was about 1.423 indicating the uneconomic use of this resource.

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