THE ESTIMATION OF RETURNS AND PROFITABILITY FOR PRODUCTION AND PROCESSING OF SUGARCAN AND SUGARBEET IN EGYPT

Abstract

The study aims at raise the level of the sugar production in Egypt through the studying and analysis of the following items: 1 - Local production, national consumption, food gap and the average per capita. 2 - The trend of total production and the inputs supplies of the sugarcane and sugar beet crops. 3 – Cost structure, total revenues and economic efficiency indicators for the studied crops. 4 – The technical and economic efficiency measures for manufacturing a ton of sugarcane, sugar beet, and refined sugar. Value chain analysis of the goods, in order to estimate the revenue and profitability for the production and processing of tons of sugarcane crops, sugar beet and product ton of refined sugar in Egypt.The study found the following main results: 1 - net return of the pound invested amounted to about 0.76, 0.81 pounds / pound, and that each of the sugarcane and sugar beet crops, that is in the beet crop surpassed cane crop. 2 - The value of the products to manufacture per ton are estimated at 1734.12, 731.38 pounds for cane and beet crop, respectively. And that the net return to manufacture a ton of about 862.82, 248.18 pounds for the two crops, respectively. Finally, the net return on the investor pound has reached 0.99, 0.51 pounds per ton of cane and beet, respectively. 3 - to get tons of refined sugar, necessary manufacturing 9.407 tons of sugar cane crop whereas it needed 7.587 tons of beet crop. And that the value of sales of products from the manufacture of sugar beet crop represents 34.02% than that of the sugar cane crop.