Ismail Imran ^(1)*

(1). Agricultural Economics, Directorate of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform, Lattakia, Ministry of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform, Syria.

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

Received:25/06/2022          Accepted: 13/11/2022

Abstract: 

The research aims to study the comparative advantage and the impact of government support provided to the citrus crop in the Syrian coast using the Policy Analysis Matrix (PAM), in order to evaluate the subsidy policies used, and to choose the most appropriate policy to support the crop, and to achieve the previous goals, the study relied on secondary data for 2018, issued by the Ministry of Agriculture and Reform The descriptive analytical approach was used to present the policies to support the citrus crop, and to introduce the Policy Analysis Matrix (PAM), in terms of its construction mechanism, and ways to use it in analyzing and evaluating policies. The results of the research showed that the citrus production system in the Syrian coast is competitive, and is characterized by a comparative advantage, in addition to the lack of support for citrus prices, meaning that there is a tax charged on the agricultural product, and thus citrus growers get a lower profit, and the local prices of inputs are lower than the prices This means that citrus producers obtain financial subsidies by purchasing production inputs at a lower price if their trade were free. However, the real percentage of government support for the agricultural product is very low, due to the low value of the producers’ support factor.                                             

Key words: citrus yield, agricultural support, agricultural policies, production costs, comparative advantage.

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