الأبعاد الاقتصادية و الاجتماعية لزراعة القمح بالوادي الجديد

Abstract EN

Achieving sustainable development is the essence of the endeavor of many governments and organizations in order to ensure the improvement of the quality of human life socially, economically and environmentally.

Therefore, a state of harmony must be created between humans first, and between humans and nature secondly, as the concept of sustainable development aims to achieve a kind of social cohesion and create a kind of culture.

It promotes this kind of cohesion, and this research was an observation of the most important social and economic dimensions of the wheat growers community in the New Valley Governorate.

Social cohesion, participation in civil society associations, and informal social participation as social dimensions of the wheat growers community in the New Valley Governorate have been studied, and the most important Economic indicators of the production costs per acre of the crop, the total revenue and the net yield per acre as an economic dimension.

The problem of the research was the high cost of agricultural land reclamation, high prices of agricultural inputs, and water scarcity are among the most important challenges facing agricultural production in general and wheat production, especially in the New Valley Governorate, which requires studying these challenges and how to overcome them to reconstruct the promising New Valley Governorate and make it an attractive area for migration The interior, especially as the state seeks to control the population distribution and treat overcrowding in the valley and delta regions.

The descriptive and quantitative statistical method was used, such as percentages, arithmetic averages, and regression method to estimate each of the time trend equations, and the most important economic indicators for the costs of producing acres of the crop, total revenue and net yield per acres.

The sample size was determined using the geometric mean and the modified geometric mean, and the villages were selected from the Farafra Center according to the relative importance of the area planted with the crop, which is Al-Kifah and Al-Liwaa Sbeih.

And it was clear from the study of the production function that increasing the acre yield of the farmer encourages the improvement and increase of production, as the acre yield amounted to about 9321 pounds for the first agricultural category, the second 8686, and the third 8061 pounds.

Among the indicators of the productive and economic efficiency of wheat for the three tenure categories are the total costs, which amounted to about 6934, 7020, 7095 EGP, respectively, for the three categories, and the revenues amounted to about 16255, 15706, 15156 pounds, respectively, and the profitability of the producing unit was 2825, 2714 and 2,600 pounds, and the profitability of the invested pound was about 1.34, 1.24, 1.14, respectively, for the three categories.

That was attributed to some social factors, which were represented in the increase in the degree of social cohesion, cooperation and community participation, as shown in the results, where the arithmetic mean of the degree of informal social participation was about 21.5 degrees, and a standard deviation of 2.9 units, and it was found that the majority of the respondents by 73.7% were the degree of their informal participation is high, and the arithmetic mean of the degree of social cohesion was about 42.3 degrees, and a standard deviation of 4.17 units.

It was found that the majority of respondents, at a rate of 94.9%, had a high degree of social cohesion.

This indicates a high societal awareness in the research community and a decrease in tensions and conflicts between members of the community, and these social results are consistent with the economic result that the first category is more profitable than the second and third categories as a result of an increase in the degree of both social cohesion and informal community participation.

The agricultural development in Egypt is based on two main axes, namely, the horizontal and vertical agricultural expansions, by working on the development of high-productivity varieties of the wheat crop that tolerate drought, high salinity and desert environment conditions and increasing the cultivated area of the wheat crop in the lands at the expense of the cultivation of the alfalfa crop.

The wheat and alfalfa crop are among the most important crops.

The results of forecasting the production and consumption of wheat in the New Valley are that the expected production in 2025 is about 751.15 thousand tons, and the expected consumption is about 85.57 thousand tons, and the surplus is about 692.58 thousand tons, and the selfsufficiency ratio is about 1420.36.