محددات إنتاج محصول بنجر السكر بمحافظة الشرقية

Abstract EN

Sugar is one of the main sources of energy needed for the individual and it is included in many food industries in addition to being a preservative for some foodstuffs.

Sugar production in Egypt totaled 2.249 million tons in 2017, while the national consumption was 3.230 million tons.

This means that there was afood gap that totaled 981 thousand tons, this gap is must be covered by imports from abroad, which adds abureden on the budget of the public theasury.

The study aimed to identify the factors affecting sugar beet production, in order to activate the positive and elimination of the negative, so the economic efficiency could be raised and productivity.

The study was based on published secondary data and data from sampling, to achene the objective study used descriptive and quantitative methods to analysis data.

The most important results were as following: (1) The average area cultivated with sugar beet was 43.96 thousand feddans and the average feddan productivity was 20.24 tons.

As a result, the average total production was 894.35 thousand tons during the has 2007-2016.

(2) The North Sector in Sharkia governorate was the biggest area sugar beet.

Which farmed about 96.01% of the total cultivated area in Sharkia Governorate, which is 50381 thousand feddans during 2017/2018.

(3) The results of the economic efficiency of sugar beet yield indicate that the total revenue was LE 16.235.30 per feddan and the total production cost was LE 12,600.9 per feddan.

This means that the net return amounted to LE 3634.40 per feddan and the profitability of spent pound was 28.84 piasters, the producer incentive totaled 16.60%.

Sugar beet is a profitable crop.

(4) to study the factors affecting the production of beet sugar in the sample, it was found from the results of the Kop-Douglas that the increasing of both the amount of seed in kilograms, the amount of net phosphate in kilograms, the amount of net nitrogen in kilograms, the amount of pesticides used in liters.

the average number of hours of machine work and the number of human working days lead to an increase in the average production of sugar beet.

The increasing of the previous variables together by 10% lead to increasing in production by 49.08%, which mean that the production function was increasing return to scale.