Ismail    Omran ^(¹)*, Ghassan Yacoub⁽¹⁾  and  Mahmoud Alio⁽¹⁾

(1). Dep. Agricultural Economics, Fac. Agric., Tishreen Univ., Lattakia, Syria.

(*Corresponding author: Eng: Ismail Mohamad Omran E.mail: Ismail.omran86@gmail.com).

Received: 17/11/2020                                Accepted: 20/04/2020

Abstract

The aim of the research is to study the governmental support provided to the citrus crop in Lattakia governorate before and after the creation of the Agricultural Production Support Fund, in addition to studying the indicators of economic performance efficiency in order to evaluate the adopted support policies and choose the most appropriate policy to support the crop.  The research data were collected from primary sources represented in a sample size of 381 farmers in the governorate of Lattakia distributed in a complete random manner. The data were also collected from secondary sources represented in references, reports, books, and websites, where the study used the descriptive and analytical approach, and the data was analyzed using (SPSS20).The results of the study showed an increase in production costs due to the high costs of agricultural inputs as a result of liberalizing their prices in the market, allowing the private sector to import them and meat at their prices, in addition to a decrease in the net return of a dunum of citrus crops from 13440 SYP / dunum to 10300 SYP / dunum, a decrease of about 31%, and the shift of agricultural support from in-kind support to cash support did not harm the farmers’ interest, because the amount provided to support one dunum of the crop is very small when compared to the cost of producing a dunum.

Key words: citrus yield, agricultural support, agricultural policies, In-kind support, cash support.

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