دراسة اقتصادية لأهم العوامل المؤثرة على إنتاج المحاصيل الحقلية البقولية في مصر

Abstract EN

Leguminous crops are one of the most important food groups necessary for humans due to their high nutritional value, in addition to using the outputs from them in the manufacture of fodder necessary for the development of livestock.

However, it was recently noticed a significant decrease in the area of those crops from about 305 thousand feddans during the period (2002-2004) to about 106 thousand feddans during the period (2017-2019), which in turn was reflected in the decrease in local production and an increase in the food gap.

Several results were obtained, the most important of which are the following: It was found from the response function of the width of the study crops that the area of faba bean, fenugreek and chickpea decreased by about 0.015, 0.001, and 0.002 thousand feddans, respectively, with an increase in the net return of clover in the previous year by about one pound.

The increase in the total production of lupine in the previous year, about one thousand ardebs, leads to an increase in the area in the current year, about 0.0002 thousand feddans.

The area of lentils decreased by about 0.005 thousand feddans as a result of the increase in the net yield of the wheat crop in the previous year, about one pound.

The study of the ratios and conditions of exchange between the base and comparison periods of faba bean, lupine, fenugreek, and chickpea crops showed that it is not in favor of the producers, as it reached about 13.1, 58.7, 63.2, 31.4 for each of them, respectively.

On the contrary, the lentil crop was in the interest of the producers, as a result of the increase in the benefits they obtain from the government.

By analyzing the per-acre budget indicators for legume field crops.

The production safety limit reached about 62.2%, 73.5%, 47%, 44.7%, and 61.6%, respectively Recommendations `The need to expand the cultivation of leguminous field crops on the horizontal and vertical levels by increasing the area planted with these crops, especially in new lands, using high-yield varieties that withstand different environmental conditions.

The necessity of adopting a policy of contract farming to improve the terms of the internal exchange rates for these crops, which aims to obtain high prices for farmers and provide support to farmers