دراسة اقتصادية لتقدير استجابة العرض لمحصول بنجر السكر في مصر

الملخص EN

The sugar beet crop is one of the important sugar crops for in 2020, sugar production amounted to about 2.3 million tons of beet and cane sugar, and sugar beet contributes about 1.4 million tons, representing 62.1 % of the total sugar production, while sugar cane contributes about 0.86 million tons, representing about 7.9 % of the total sugar production in Egypt.

the local consumption of sugar in Egypt in 2020 amounted to about 3.3 million tons, with a food gap estimated at about one million tons.

the problem is that the state imports sugar from abroad, and this represents a burden on the trade balance of food commodities, and the public budget bears more burdens, especially in light of the lack of foreign currency.

the research aims to estimate the supply response functions of the sugar beet crop in Egypt in order to identify the most important explanatory variables that affect the cultivated area of the crop under study and the extent of the farmers' response to expansion or contraction in its cultivation.

it was also found that the profitability of the pound invested for alfalfa ranked first among the competing crops, followed by the onion crop in the second rank, while wheat, sugar beet and fava beans ranked third, fourth and fifth, respectively.

also it was found that the alfalfa crop has occupied the first rank in terms of the ratio of the total return to the total costs, followed by the onion crop in the second rank, while the crops of wheat, sugar beet, and municipal beans occupied the third, fourth and fifth ranks, respectively.