Mahaba Abd El Moety ElSayed Ahmed Mahaba^*(1)

(1). Department of Economic Studies, Socio-Economic Division, Desert Research Center, Cairo, Egypt.

(*Corresponding Author : Mahaba Abd ElMoety ElSayed. Email:  mahaba_agr11@yahoo.com)

Received: 27 /06 /2021       Accepted:  10 / 10 / 2021

Abstract

The fruits of the date palm are considered one of the most important food for the inhabitants of the desert areas, especially the governorate of the New Valley, The research problem is that the average productivity of date Palm in the New Valley governorate is lower than the average productivity in the Republic. The research aims to study the current state of date production in the New Valley governorate, by identifying the economic and technical agricultural features related to the production of date palm in the New Valley governorate. Where two samples were taken from the farmers of date Palm Al-Saidi (Al-Siwa), the first sample apply a package of targeted agricultural practices, and the other sample do not apply this package of agricultural practices, each sample was divided into three categories, and shows an increase in the value of the total production costs of fedden date Palm Al-Saidi (Al-Siwa) in the case of target such as the procedure of stacking, which is estimated at about 1140 ، 1144, 1138 EGP for the first, second and third acquisition categories, respectively, as well as the value of the annual loss of the drip irrigation network, which is estimated at about 1715 EGP for all acquisition categories, in addition to the value of the bags used in the process of bagging, and finally the high cost of maintenance of the drip irrigation network, despite the high ranking, as a result of the high production costs resulting from the application of these practices, but the increase in individual productivity in The state of application of targeted agricultural practices compared to the case of non-application of these practices by 0,433, 0,432, 0,436 tons/fedden for the first, second and third possessory categories, respectively, this in addition to the increase of the agricultural price of the crop in the case of application of agricultural practices compared to the case of non-application of these practices by 77, 70, 73 pounds/fedden yield is approximately 3.55%, 4.24% and 4.05% for the first, second and third acquisition categories, respectively. The research recommended the need to expand the application of new agricultural practices in date palm farms in the New Valley Governorate.

Keywords: Date palm, ElSaidi variety, Good gricultural practices,    Productive efficiency, Egypt.

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