An Economic Study of Wheat Crop Cultivation Methods in Sharia Governorate

Abstract

The wheat crop is considered one of the most important agricultural crops that are of interest to the makers of the Egyptian agricultural economic policy, as it is one of the most important food crops in Egypt which is used in the manufacture of bread, which is the nerve of food, and is considered the first strategic crop according to food security considerations, the most important of which is the criterion for securing basic needs from Food for the citizen, and according to the value of its imports funded from the proceeds of foreign exchange, then the successive agricultural policies aim to try to achieve increasing rates of self-sufficiency in wheat ,The most important results obtained were The most important indicators of economic efficiency were that the profit of the pound spent in the traditional farming method was 1.02 pounds, rose to 1.23 pounds in the way of cultivation on terraces, rose to a maximum of cultivation in the caravan of 1.30 pounds, and this means that the profit of the pound spent in the cultivation method in the caravans exceeds that of the traditional farming methods and farming on terraces By about 0.28 pounds, 0.07 pounds, respectively. Also, the total marginal surplus amounted to 12322 pounds by conventional agriculture, 13132 pounds by planting on terraces, and 14111 pounds by cultivation by car-styling, and this means the total marginal surplus of the method of cultivation in the carpentry exceeds that of its method in a way Traditional agriculture and agriculture on terraces by about 1789 pounds, 979 pounds, respectively. As for the incentive of the product amounted to about 77 piasters by the traditional farming method, it rose to about 80 piasters, both agriculture on terraces and agriculture in the carriage volume of imports of wheat from 7 million tons (the size of the wheat gap) to 2.6 million tons, and H. Equivalent to $ 994.4 million, at an average price of (US $ 226 / ton)