Moataz Eliw Mostafa Ahmed*(1,3) Osman Ali Ismail(1) and Mohammed El Din Osman(2)
(1). Department of Agricultural Economics, faculty of agriculture, Al-Azhar University, Assuit, Egypt.
(2). Department of Agricultural Economics, faculty of agriculture, Minia University, Egypt.
(3). College of Economics and Management, Huazhong Agricultural University, China.
(*Corresponding author: Moataz Eliwi Mostafa Ahmad. E-Mail: moatazeliw@gmail.com).
Received: 11/05/2019 Accepted: 04/06/2019
Abstract
The current research was aimed to analyze the various constraints facing Egyptian potatoes crop exports, and thus the possibility of overcoming these constraints, and developing proposals that could lead to further export development of that important crop. The results showed that there were many problems facing Egyptian exports of potatoes crop for export harvesting, which affect the efficiency of the export process. The survey showed that these problems represented about 18.23% of the concerns of exporters followed by the problem of financing export insurance which had the same proportion (18.23%) of exporters ‘ concerns, and the problem of sorting and grading stations was ranked third and represented about 15.16% of the concerns of exporters, followed in the fourth rank the problem of actions taken by the government towards exporters, which affects export efficiency for potatoes harvest, where these problems represented about 11.91% of the concerns of exporters, followed in the fifth rank to the eighth rank, the problems of inland transport, storage and refrigeration, problems related to the importing countries, and finally marketing information by about 11.37%, 8.66%, 8.30%, and 8.12% respectively.
Key words: Potatoes crop, Export constraints, Variance analysis, Kai Square.
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