دراسة اقتصادية للتجارة الخارجية للفلفل المصري

Abstract EN

The research aimed to identify the current situation of the production and foreign trade of Egyptian pepper, the research relied on achieving its objectives on both the use of the descriptive and standard analytical method.

The research reached a set of results.

the most important of which are: 1- The total production of pepper ranged between a minimum of about 481 thousand tons in 2004 and a maximum of about 825.3 thousand tons in 2009 with an annual average of 675.15 thousand tons.

The total production of pepper crop in Egypt has taken an increasing and significant with an annual growth rate of 2% with an annual change of 13.5 thousand tons.

While the statistical significance of the total cultivated area in Egypt did not prove at different levels of significance.

as a study of the average per capita pepper showed that it ranged between a minimum of about 6.71 kg\years in 2004 and a maximum of about 10.57 kg\years in 2009 with an annual average of about 8.5 kg\years.

2- The results show that the United States of America.

Germany.

the United Kingdom.

France are ranked first from the fourth place for countries importing pepper with a percentage of about 34%.

12.16%.

7.16% and 5.07% of the total world imported pepper.

which amounts to 3.29 million tons.

3- It became clear from the geographical distribution of the Egyptian exports of peppers that each of Saudi Arabia, Hungary, Libya, Russian and Kuwait with a concentration factor that reached about 59.68%.

39.08%, 35.92%, 22.71% and 8.75%.

While the geographical concentration coefficients for Italy, Qatar, Slovenia, the Emirates and Bahrain are around sixth to tenth 7.32%, 3.08% 3.77%, 1.21%, 1.96% each, respectively.

And the amount of Egyptian pepper exports to these tenth countries amounted to about 8.38 thousand tons, representing about 95.8%.

4- Libya is the largest average market share for Egyptian pepper exports.

as it reached about 66% of the average Libyan imports.

as the average share of Egyptian pepper to Hungary and Saudi Arabia reached about 13%.

12% of their average imports of pepper for each of them.

Ranking as the market penetration index for Egyptian exports of Egyptian pepper to the Saudi market amounted to about 9.97%.

while the market penetration index for the market in Hungary.

Russia.

Kuwait.

Italy.

Qatar.

Slovenia.

UAE and Bahrain reached about 0.54%, 0.74%, 1.04%, 0.03%, 1.99%, 0.17%, 0.81%, 3.11% each of them, respectively This indicates the difficulty of penetrating Egyptian exports to these markets.

Egyptian pepper has a competitive advantage in the Saudi market compared to the average export price of Bangladesh.

and in the Hungarian market compared to the average export price of Germany.

Spain.

and the Russian market compared to the average export price of Israel.

as it was found that there is no comparative price advantage for Kuwait, Qatar, Slovenia, The Emirates, Bahrain compared to the prices of the competing countries.