AN ECONOMIC STUDY FOR THE FACTORS AFFECTING ON THE PRODUCTION OF OLIVE CROP UNDER CONDITIONS OF THE DESERT ENVIRONMENT A CASE STUDY OF SOUTH SINAI GOVERNORATE

M. A., Ragab; N, A., Abdel Ghani; R. H., Mostafa; S. A.S., Hassan

doi:10.21608/jes.2017.19586

AN ECONOMIC STUDY FOR THE FACTORS AFFECTING ON THE PRODUCTION OF OLIVE CROP UNDER CONDITIONS OF THE DESERT ENVIRONMENT A CASE STUDY OF SOUTH SINAI GOVERNORATE

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ Faculty of Agriculture, Ain shams university

² Research Center of the Desert.

10.21608/jes.2017.19586

Abstract

The research aims to study the factors affecting the production of olive crop in South Sinai. A simple random sample of olive farmers distributed among two categories of land acquisitions, First category is olive farmers with 10 Feddan or less, Second category is olive farmers with more than 10 Feddan. The research resulted in the following:
-Production function of first category shows statistical significant positive relationship between production and working hours machinery, and effective units of nitrogen. Farmers in this category are producing in economic stage.
-The second category shows significant positive relationship between production and working hours machinery, the human labor، amount of potassium units, and the nitrogen units.

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