Document Type : Original Research
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Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, New Valley University, Egypt
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Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, Assiut University, Egypt
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Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, Al-Azhar University, Assiut, Egypt.
Abstract
When studying the productivity of date palm cultivation in Egypt during the period (2000-2021), it was found that both the cultivated area of date palms and the number of fruit-bearing palm trees, as well as the total production in Egypt, increased at statistically significant annual rates of approximately 3.07%, 1.84%, and 2.30% respectively. Similarly, the cultivated area of date palms, the number of fruit-bearing palm trees, and the total production in New Valley Governorate showed significant annual increases of approximately 5.27%, 4.35%, and 5.44% respectively during the same period. In studying the total elasticity of production functions for date palm cultivation, the yield per unit of input increased when using traditional and improved flood irrigation methods. This indicates that input utilization occurs in the initial non-economic stage of production. Conversely, a decrease in yield per unit of input was observed when using drip irrigation. Estimating the coefficient of economic efficiency for date palm cultivation across the entire study sample revealed that all production factors utilized in the production process reached their optimal levels to achieve economic efficiency, except for the amount of labor (man/hours per acre) and the amount of nitrogen fertilizer per effective unit (kg per acre) with drip irrigation. Moreover, the level of production maximizing per-acre profits from date palm cultivation was found to be 8.16, 8.61, and 8.42 tons per acre for drip irrigation, improved flood irrigation, and traditional flood irrigation, respectively, within the total study sample in New Valley Governorate.
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