Analytical study for predicting production, national consumption and self-sufficiency rates of the most important legume crops in Egypt

Abstract EN

The united nations announced in 2016 was as international year for legumes crops.

as a part of sustainable food production, legumes are playing a vital role in Egypt for providing people with their needs from plant protein and amino acids.

in gen-eral, Egypt suffers a gap between domestic pro-duction of legumes and consumption needs, par-ticularly of faba bean, and lentil.

thus, self suffi-ciency ratios reached 39% and 1.6% for both crops in 2014 respectively (2).

consequently, the imported amounts from both products were increasing dur-ing 1993 and 2014.

so that the average of import value of faba bean reached to le 1.7 milliards alone, while lentil reached to le 583.4 millions during 2010 and 2014, which represent about 66.2% and 22.3% respectively from the average import value of legume crops.

due to spread bal-kiros injury in 2011, the cultivated area and domes-tic production of faba bean has been significantly declined so that import value was increased.

while, faba bean domestic production represents about 78% of total legumes production, lentil rep-resents only 1.3% as average of the period (1993-2014)(3).