دراسة تحليلية لأهم المؤشرات الاقتصادية للمحاصيل البقولية العلفية في محافظة درعا للموسم الزراعي

Abstract EN

The Aim of the research was to identify the most important economic indicators of leguminous forage crops in the second stability zone in Daraa governorate during the agricultural season 2008/ 2009.

In fact, the importance of forage in Syria increased recently due to the increasing number of animals and the shortage forage as a result of the consequence drought and the reduction of the area planted with leguminous forage in the last two decades.

The research was designed by the determination of the production costs of leguminous forage crops, throughout the investigation of randomly selection e 85 farmers who are engaged in cultivation of leguminous forage crops in the region located at the second stability zone ( Zone B).

The results showed a high cost rate of the threshing and winnowing of studied crops, accounting to about 25% of the total costs, and that is because the manually harvest and the lack of availability of labor during the harvest season.

The results also showed low economic indicators of leguminous forage crops, where the overall of the level of profitability is decreased due to low productivity per unit area and the high cost.

For example, the productivity was 21.1, 29.5 and 6 %, for Vetch, Visia sativa and Lathyrus sativa respectively.

And this cost can be the main reasons for the declining in the acreage planted by these crops in Daraa governorate.

The study highlighted the need for supporting these crops and giving them incentive pricing competition and also the need for backing up the production requirements and also the development of high yielding varieties suited for the circumstances of the region, especially the stability of the province of the second stability zone.