The Economics of Dairy Milk Production in Egypt (A case study in Assiut Governorate)

This research aimed to shed light on the dairy milk production sector in Egypt, the determinants of its production capacity, estimate the dairy food gap and its self-sufficiency ratio, analyze the dairy production features through the research sample in Assuit governorate, and  extraction the most important problems facing dairy producers and the most important suggestions to overcome them.
 The main finding of the research could be summarized as follows:
-        The most important factors determine dairy production in Egypt include farm animal numbers of domestic cows, foreign cows, mixed cows buffalo, the area of perennial clover, green fodder, and the amount of concentrated fodder.
-        the amount of processed fodder, flour bran ,clover and maize were the most productive factors affecting the produced dairy amount of cows and buffalos.
-        The most important productivity problems facing owners of sample dairy animals in Assuit governorate include the high price of processed bush, followed by the purchasing high price of cattle at the production age, cattle low productivity, and the unavailability of processed fodder with good components.                     
The research recommends the necessity of proving fodder particularly the processed one with reasonable prices and high quality, facing the increasingly high prices of cattle at the production age by establishing governmental projects that provide cattle with reasonable prices, inferring types and species of high productivity that are able to resist diseases, reducing the interest rate on cash loans directed to livestock development in the field of dairy production providing veterinary care and medicines at reasonable prices, the necessity of paying attention to small female animals that should not be slaughtered at an early age in order to increase the number of dairy producing animals and finally cultivating green fodders particularly in the summer.