دراسة اقتصادية لمحصول الفول البلدي في مصر : (دراسة حالة بمحافظة أسيوط)‎

Abstract EN

The research aims to identify the factors affecting the cultivation and production of the broad bean crop in Egypt in general and Assiut Governorate in particular, with the activation and activation of the positive ones.

And identifying the most important production and marketing problems that lead to the deterioration of the area and productivity in Assiut Governorate, in addition to the initial data, which leads to raising the efficiency of economic and productive performance and improving the quality and quality of the crop.

The study relied on published and unpublished secondary data in addition to the initial data represented in designing and preparing a questionnaire form for a sample of 150 farmers from Assiut Governorate, who were randomly selected from Abu Tig and Manfalut centers during the agricultural season (2019/2020 The most important results were: 1-The area planted with beans in the Republic took a general declining and statistically significant trend of about 7.48%, and the average production took a general increasing trend of about 1.33% and was not statistically significant, while the total production took a significant decreasing trend of about 0.45%.

And the statistically significant by about 0.23% and 0.46%, respectively, while the local consumption, the size of the gap, and the amount of imports took a general increasing trend and statistically significant by about 4.31%, 0.063%, 0.043%.

%, 9.49%, and average production took a general decreasing trend, and the significance was not statistically proven.

2-The results of the estimation according to the value of the total elasticity of logarithmic physical production functions (step-wise) indicated the following: -That the broad bean farms are in the first holding category and the second holding category and for the total sample, where the increasing productive relationship prevails, meaning the existence of increased capacity returns.

As for the third holding category, where the diminishing production relationship prevails, that is, the diminishing returns to capacity.

3- The farm production cost functions were estimated for each holding category and the total research sample.

The study estimated the optimum size of production at about 8.6, 8.6, 10, and 9 ardeb per feddan, respectively, in the studied samples.

The maximum profit size was obtained at about 11, 12, 12 and 14 ardeb per feddan in the studied samples.

The cost elasticities are 0.65, 0.66, 0.72, and 0.52.

4- Using the Kai square method (2) to arrange the relative importance of the most important production and marketing problems facing bean producers in the research sample at Manfalut Center in Assiut governorate for the 2019/2020 agricultural season, the following was found: The problem of low feddan productivity of faba beans (Q1) occupies the first place, followed by the problem of spreading the parasite of halochus in beans (Q2) the second place.

The most important recommendations: 1- Expanding the area cultivated with this crop with new reclaimed lands and working to raise its feddan productivity by developing new high-yielding varieties and adopting modern methods of agriculture and irrigation 2- Following the contract farming system to encourage farmers to increase production.

And provide high-yield seeds for farms 3- Eliminating all production and marketing problems facing bean producers.

4- Adopting an encouraging price policy for farmers to encourage farmers to increase the cultivated area of beans.

5- Attention to combating insects that transmit viral diseases, especially aphids.