تسويق الأرز في مصر : "دراسة حالة بمحافظة الشرقية"

الملخص EN

Rice is one of the most important grain crops in Egypt.

It is an essential food.

It is also used in several industries such as rice milling, and animal feed manufacturing.

The study aimed to identify the price levels of rice, and the factors affecting the market surplus for barley rice.

The study was based on the secondary data published by the Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation and the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics.

And the preliminary field data were collected from a sample size of 90 rice farmers in the productive season 2020 in Sharkia Governorate.

The methods of descriptive and quantitative statistics and analysis of the market surplus and the factors affecting it.

The most important results of the study: 1- The average cultivated area of barley rice in Sharkia Governorate was about 241,085 thousand feddan, representing 17.51% of the total cultivated area in Egypt during the study period (2005-2019).

2- The average feddan productivity of barley rice in Sharkia Governorate was about 3.44 tons per feddan, representing 86.86% of the total feddan productivity in Egypt during the same period.

3- The average total production of barley rice in the Sharkia governorate was about 955.257 thousand tons, representing 17.35% of the total production in Egypt during the same period.

4- The main indicators of pricing and marketing efficiency of white rice in Egypt: An increasing trend of consumer price, that increase in urban was higher than in rural Because of marketing costs.

An increasing trend in marketing differences, that increase in urban was higher than in rural because the retail price of white rice, with no change in the product price.

5- The most important factors affecting the market surplus of barley rice were: A positive relationship with the production of barley rice per ton, and the average price per ton of barley rice.

And negative relationships with the household consumption of barley rice per ton.

The study Recommendations were: Reducing the price disturbances of barley rice, and white rice by allocating the cultivated areas and not wasting irrigation water.

Cultivation of genetically modified varieties with high productivity and low water requirements.

Providing small farmers with bank loans.

Working on developing rice mills in villages to reduce waste.