دراسة اقتصادية عن تكاليف تخزين القمح و كفاءة الاستثمار في مرحلة التخزين بمحافظة الشرقية

Abstract EN

Wheat is considered one of the main and strategic cereal crops in Egypt.

which attracts the concerns of economic policy makers.

Products of wheat.

especially bread.

represent the main component of the food diet for most Egyptians.

It is grown in most of Egypt's governorates.

where it was found that the total cultivated area of wheat in Egypt is about 3.72 million feddans during the average period (2017-2019).

In addition.

the average of total consumption of wheat is about 23.5 million tons.

so that there is a nutritional gap of wheat is about 15.11 million tons during the same period.

One of the plans for providing the necessary of wheat depends mainly on the increase and development of storage scales.

according to a geographical plan that is suitable for the human density and the presence of mills.

With expand the establishment of horizontal storage systems with low costs.

While working on the availability of quantities of wheat continuously.By transforming Egypt from a wheat importing country into a market for marketing wheat or wheat flour to neighboring countries.

By creating and establishing low-cost stores where wheat is stored in supplying countries.

whether for the government or the private sector.

Sharkia Governorate ranks the first among Egypt’s governorates in terms of cultivated area of wheat.

whereas the total cultivated area of wheat in the governorate is about 367 thousand feddans.

representing about 11.67% of the total cultivated area of wheat in Egypt during the average period (2017-2019).

The research problem is the lack of importance of grain storage operations in Egyptian agricultural policies and these results in high losses of these grains in general.

and wheat in particular.

in the different stages of storage which represents a huge burden on the national economy.

The data sources were limited into two main sources of data.

the first one: Published and unpublished secondary data and the second is primary data belongs to the field study.

The study also used the descriptive and quantitative methods in analyzing and presenting the most important results as: The internal rate of return in the total storage scales of wheat in Sharkia Governorate during the average period of 2018- 2019 is estimated at 13.5%.

which is greater than the rate of interest in commercial banks (10%).

Average and marginal costs functions of storages scales of wheat in Sharkia Governorate showed that the optimum of production quantity is about 9.28 thousand tons and the of production quantity that maximized the profit is about 9.61 thousand tons