الجوانب الاقتصادية للزراعة العضوية في مصر

Abstract EN

The research aims to measure the economic impact of organic agriculture in the production of agricultural crops, by studying the costs and returns of the most important agricultural crops using traditional agriculture and comparing them to its counterpart produced using organic agriculture, in addition to identifying the most important problems facing the expansion of organic agriculture in Egypt and trying to provide solutions.

The results indicated that despite the increase in the percentage of organic area to the total agricultural land area in Egypt from 0.7% in 2005 to 3% in 2018, it is still small areas that do not correspond to the justification for expanding organic agriculture.

The results showed an increase in the feddan productivity of the crops of onions, winter garlic and indigo tomatoes using organic crops by 12%, 11%, 12% over that of traditional crops, while the feddan productivity of summer pepper crops, chamomile and fennel wormwood decreased by 6%, 7%, 7%.

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While the results indicated that despite the high cost of production for all organically produced crops at rates ranging between 15% for chamomile wormwood as a maximum and 0.4% for summer pepper over traditional crops, the net per feddan yield from organic crops has increased by rates ranging between 63% in the case of Winter onions as a maximum and between 13% in the case of summer peppers as a minimum.

The results also indicated that the application of organic farming leads to a reduction in the percentage of waste, especially horticultural crops, by between (10% -20%) compared to its counterpart in traditional crops, in addition to improving the quality of the product.

This indicates the possibility of increasing the income of the producer on the one hand and increasing the net national agricultural income on the other hand, in addition to some indirect benefits, which are represented in reducing the treatment costs of some human diseases as a result of the excessive use of pesticides and chemical fertilizers.

Therefore, the study recommends expanding organic agriculture - especially the one and a half million acres’ project - through fixed marketing outlets in urban areas and linking them to production areas through contract farming and within an institutional framework under the supervision of agricultural cooperative societies and activating the role of agricultural extension in the field of organic agriculture, while expanding production.

Bio fertilizers, and training farmers to manufacture compost from farm waste, in addition to activating the role of control bodies on organic products under the new Organic Agriculture Law