PRODUCTION AND MARKETING OF THE ARTICHOKE IN BEHEIRA GOVERNORATE CASE STUDY IN KAFR EL- DAWAR

The artichoke is one of non-traditional export of vegetables crops, Consisted research problem that Egypt produces almost five global production of artichokes, but the volume of exports is not commensurate with the production and the large amounts of artichoke exports are made in the image fresh and not processed and thus lower the value added to exports of artichokes, And artichoke market is characterized by vacillation and of price stability as a result of its association with the external marketing, which affects the incomes of farmers and workers artichoke processing stations. Targeted
research in the study of both the time development and current status of the production of artichokes in the Egyptian agriculture and the province of the lake, the most important foreign market indicators Egyptian artichoke, the
value chain of the artichoke analysis of Kafr Al-Dawar Status, general characteristics of the value chain, identifying the strengths and weaknesses of the episodes of the value chain of the artichoke Kafr Al-Dawar Status points.
The results of the study showed that Egypt is the second largest in the world as the most important producing and exporting countries, while classified all of Italy, France and Spain of the most important producing and
importing and exporting. The amount has also taken and the value of Egyptian exports of artichokes years an increasing trend during the study