An economic study for the production of green pepper crop in greenhouses in Dakahlia governorate

Abstract EN

Despite the importance of greenhouse projects in increasing agricultural production, mitigating the seasonal phenomenon of agricultural production, reducing unemployment, and reducing the gap between supply and demand in agricultural crops resulting from greenhouses, whether in local markets or exporting them to foreign markets.

Despite the high return results of growing vegetable crops in greenhouses, where the productivity of one acre of greenhouses increases six times what traditional agriculture produces of those crops, but these projects still suffer from some economic and productivity problems, which leads to poor spread.

This research relied on descriptive and quantitative statistical analysis methods, time series analysis, estimation of some indicators of technical and capacitive efficiency, to produce greenhouses from Green pepper crop to the research sample in Dakahlia Governorate, by Farrell Approach, or (DEA) Data Envelopment Analysis, to estimate each of the Technical Efficiency, Scale Efficiency.

The criteria for the financial feasibility study for greenhouse projects were also used, and the research relied on the primary data through, questionnaire forms collected from, the Green pepper crop farmers to the research sample, during the field interviews for farmers.

The research also relied on secondary data published in many official bodies, such as the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics, the Central Administration of Agricultural Economy, some research, letters, studies, and scientific books related to the topic of research were used.

The research aims at an economic study, for the production of the Green pepper crop in greenhouses, in Dakahlia Governorate, through: a study of the development of area, production and numbers of greenhouses in Egypt, during the period (2000-2019), the standard estimation of the functions of the costs of the Green pepper crop, in greenhouses in the study sample, estimating the efficiency Technical, for the project of producing Green pepper crop in greenhouses in the study sample, financial and economic evaluation, of the feasibility of projects for the production of Green pepper crop in greenhouses, in the sample of the study.

The research relied on the primary data, for a sample of Green pepper growers, in the greenhouses of the research sample, in Dakahlia Governorate, the number of its vocabulary reached 28 greenhouses, and the multiple regression method was used, using the ordinary least squares method, to estimate the functions of production costs of the Green pepper crop, in the sample greenhouses.

The research, using various mathematical forms, has been estimated in the long run, and the most important economic derivatives are derived, for the functions of total costs to infer from them the economies of capacity, marginal costs, cost flexibility, the optimum volume of production and the most profit in the long run