Indicators of Productive and Economic Efficiency and Estimation of The Net Return of Producing The Navel Orange Crop

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1 Agricultural Economic Department ,faculty of Agriculture,Benha University.

2 Regional Studies Department, Economic research Institute, Agriculture Research Center, Egypt.

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Oranges are considered one of the most important horticultural crops in terms of monetary value and cultivated area ,as they can be relied upon to increase foreign exchange earnings. The problem of the study was that the navel orange crop has acomparative advantage in its production and thus increases its exports. However, the productive and marketing reality of the crop is plagued by some proplems and obstacies The research aimed to study the productive indicators of the orange crop insutra in the governorate during the period (2007-2022), studying some indicators of productive and economic efficiency .the sample date was collected in the 2022-2023 agricultural season ,and the study sample was chosen from the selected villages ,and the sample members reached 118 respondents in Toukh center and kafr shukr ,and the average of production reached 280.779 thousand tons during the study period .the average return of the pound invested from navel oranges in the first holding category was about 0.55 while in the second holding category it was about 0.92 and in the third category it was about 1.25 AS for the total study sample of farmers , the average return of the pound invested was about 0.95. 

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Scientific Journal of Agricultural Sciences
Volume 6, Issue 3
September 2024
Pages 220-234

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