Ahmad Al-sahwan^*(1), Darwich Cheikh⁽¹⁾ and Nerouz Ferdawi⁽¹⁾

 (1). Dept. of economic, Faculty of Agriculture, Aleppo University, Aleppo, Syria

(*Corresponding author: Eng. Ahmad Al-sahwan. E-Mail:  ahmadalsahwan@gmail.com).

Received:  29/07/2021              Accepted:  17/01/2021           

Abstract

The aim to study the impact of the price policy on irrigated barley productionin Hama Governorate. To reach this objective, the impact of the barley price has been studied on the planted areas and the economic indexes of the crop during (2005-2018). The results show that the annual change rate of irrigated barley areas is increasing by ca. 2,043.7 ha at the country level. The annual change rate of irrigated barley production is also increasing by. 5,253.8 ton and the yield are also growing by 35.52 kg/ha. However, the annual change rate of the barley area is growing by 533.6 ha at the Hama Governorate level which reflects the change in the annual farming rotation by the farmer und they turned to barley production because of its need for very simple agricultural supplies and processes. In the selected barley farms, the average total costs reach 992157 SP/ha and the total output reaches 1,906,556 SP/ha. The net profit is 914,399 SP/ha, the balance point for production capacity reached (0.31), the farm productive efficiency reaches 2.79. However, the total productive efficiency is 1.92 which indicates to the economic efficiency of irrigated barley production in the study area. In addition, the results indicate the occurrence of governmental subsidies to barley production. Whereas the higher was the price in the last season by one SP/kg the bigger are the planted areas by 88.3 ha. The higher the global price of barley by one SP/kg the more areas planted with irrigated barley which means that the government subsidy led to an increase in the barley areas by 3.6 ha in Hama.

Keywords: irrigated barley, productive and economic efficiency, price policy.

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