Productive and Economic Efficiency of Sugar cane Crop in Minya Governorate

Document Type : Original Research

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Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, Al-Azhar University, Assiut, Egypt.

Abstract

This research aims to study the economic indicators of the sugar cane crop in Egypt and Minya Governorate, besides study the statistical estimation of the physical production functions of the sugar cane crop in the study sample, and identify the economic efficiency of the most important resources used in sugar cane production at the level of the study sample, in addition to analyzing the cost functions of the crop Sugar cane with the study sample, and knowledge of the most important problems and obstacles of sugar cane producers with the study sample. The results showed that the average production of sugar cane crop in Egypt and Minya Governorate reached 15922 and 1764 thousand tons, respectively, also the average of total costs, farmgate price and acre yield over the previous period reached 7706, 325.6, and 7638.4 pounds, respectively. The results also showed that, low economic efficiency of production factors that involved in production process of the sugar cane crop in study sample, which requires rationalization of its use100 %, while the problem of low crop selling prices came in fourth place with 90%.

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