دراسة اقتصادية لسلسلة القيمة لنبات عباد القمر في مصر

Abstract EN

Egypt is rich in medicinal and aromatic plants, which occupies the fourth place in the world in its export, in the form of raw materials that lose a great economic return, and the situation changes if it is converted into manufactured or intermediate products.

According to agricultural reports, medicinal and aromatic plants occupy fifth place in the list of export crops.

Egyptian, after the cotton crop, with a volume of exports equivalent to 90% of the total annual output, most of which go to the European Union and the United States of America.

2001-2019), identifying the production costs in pounds for a feddan of chrysanthemums in Fayoum Governorate, and estimating the economic indicators for an acre of moonflowers in Fayoum governorate.

The study relied mainly on the questionnaire forms for the subject of the study by holding personal interviews with farmers and exporters of chrysanthemums (moonflowers) at the level of the centers and villages of Fayoum Governorate.

The research also relied on the published and unpublished data closely related to the subject of the study.

Moonflowers, starting with the cultivation of the crop at the level of the Fayoum governorate centers, to exporting to countries abroad.

One of the most important reasons for choosing Fayoum Governorate is the distribution of chrysanthemum plant cultivation at the governorate level, where Ibshaway and Youssef Al-Siddiq centers were chosen, which represent 55.5% and 41.9%, respectively, of the total cultivated area in the governorate, and the study concluded that the total production per ton of moonflowers has increased annually by about 825.

9 tons during the aforementioned study period, and this was confirmed statistically at the level of 5%, and the value of the coefficient of determination was 0.54) = (R2, which means that 54% of the changes in the production of total acres per ton of chrysanthemums are due to the time factor that the total costs per acre of the wheat crop The moon amounted to about 19,730 pounds, the total variable costs represent 69.6% of the total costs, and the fixed costs represent 30.4% of the total costs, such as the total costs of production requirements, 36.6% of the total variable costs, 25.5% of the total costs, and the percentage of the total agricultural costs amounted to 63.4 %, 44.1% of the total variable costs and total costs, respectively.

It was clear from the economic indicators for the dry ton of the moonflower crop in the study sample that the average acre productivity in the study sample amounted to about 5 tons.

The price of a dry ton was about 32,500,25000 pounds / ton for both the wholesaler and the exporter, respectively, and the net return amounted to about 5270, 12770 pounds / acre for both the wholesaler and the exporter, respectively, with a profit margin, a total margin They amounted to about 21.1%, 9350 pounds / ton for the wholesaler and about 39.3%, 18770 pounds / ton for the exporter, and the return on the invested pound for both the wholesaler and the exporter was estimated at 0.27, 0.65 pounds / ton, the sales ratios were 15% and 85% for both From traders to wholesale, exporters, respectively, and this comes based on the preference of exporters over wholesalers to increase global demand for Calendula over local demand, due to its economic importance required for being a very important medicinal and aromatic plant in developed countries.

From the wholesaler, where the exporter’s share amounted to 72.2%, while the share of the wholesaler amounted to 71.4%.

The net marketed ton price of the chrysanthemum crop in the study sample for exporters amounted to about 16870 pounds / ton, which is higher than the net marketed ton price of the crop for wholesalers in the study sample, which amounted to about 12820 pounds /ton.