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- Title
دراسة اقتصادية للفاقد فى مرحلة التخزين للحبوب الغذائية بريف محافظة الشرقية
- Authors
سحر بشيرحسن سليمان; الدسوقى عبد السلام الملاحى; عبد المنعم رجــب محمــد; هــديل طاهر محمد حســانين
- Abstract
Food grains are very important, as they occupied a large area of agricultural crops, also played a major role in agricultural foreign trade. In Egypt, most important agricultural processing industries are based on food grains, such as wheat and maize grinding and rice milling. However, the economic structure of agricultural marketing is the weakest agricultural economic structure, where costs and margins of marketing increase without a corresponding increase in services and functions of marketing, in addition to the high percentage of losses during grain storage. The problem of the study was explained that a small percentage of food grain crops production is directed to the state, but the rest of production are kept by the farmers for storage. As the ways, means and methods of storage of food grains are primitive, leading to increase in both percentage of losses and the food gap, causing more burdens on the public treasury. The study aimed to identify the factors and variables that effect on the efficiency of grain storage in rural areas, including positive, that can be activated and negative, which can be scaled. This will lead to improve the economic efficiency, technical performance and methods of grain storage in rural areas, and therefore reduce losses. The study was based on two main sources as published and unpublished secondary data, also preliminary data of a domain study through a specially designed survey questionnaire was compiled by personal interviews with farmers of three grain crops (wheat, maize, rice). The study relied on descriptive and quantitative methods in analyzing data and presenting its results. The study reached to many results as the follows: The percentage of losses were increased in wheat to reach the highest percentage at 6.43%, followed by maize that estimated about 5.42% and finally rice was reached to be 4.64% of the total stored quantities by tons for the studied three crops. It was also found that the loss stages were limited in loss during the crop transfer, during storage of the crop, and during the withdrawal and preparation of the stock for use, as the highest percentage of losses during the crop transfer and preparation for the storage of the three crops under study. By studying the economic logic of statistical estimation, results showed that the factors affected the amount of loss in kilograms during the storage of food grains as the storage quantities by tons, the storage costs by tons, the numbers of family's members and dummy variable (the educational situation of the researcher and the main work of the respondent), as it showed that there is a positive relationship between the amount of loss of wheat, maize and rice by kg, and the numbers of family's members, because of the increase in the consumption of food grains by increasing the number of family members and thus increasing the number of grains losses, so this will increase the losses each time, leading to an increase in the total loss at the end of the stock. However, the positive relationship between the amount of loss of maize and rice by kilograms during storage and storage costs per ton, although the costs of disinfectants of maize fell within the cost of storage, there are other factors and variables more influential in the amount of loss as the moisture content of maize due to the difference between harvest and drought dates, as it is indicated by the coefficient of identification, that showed the presence of other factors were more influential in the amount of losses by kilograms, but it didn’t fall within the cost of storage of rice due to the non-use of disinfectants in storage costs.
- Publication
Zagazig Journal of Agricultural Research, 2018, Vol 45, Issue 2, p695
- ISSN
1110-0338
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.21608/zjar.2018.49192