PRODUCTIVE WORTHINESS OF WHEAT AND BARELY CROPS IN THE ARAB COUNTRIES AND ESPECIALZATION FEATURES TOWARDS THE ARAB AGRICULTURAL INTEGRATION | ||
| Journal of Agricultural Economics and Social Sciences | ||
| Article 4, Volume 31, Issue 1, January 2006, Pages 293-303 PDF (2.78 M) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/jaess.2006.156667 | ||
| Author | ||
| A. M. Sakr | ||
| Institute of Agricultural Economic Research, Agricultural Research Center (ARC) | ||
| Abstract | ||
| There is no doubt that integration Achievement of the Arab Agricultural Production is very Necessary required by the Present Economic blocks, besides Arab food Shortage . for this, the Question is : is it possible to redistribute the allocated area for the two crops, wheat and barely in the Arab countries According to the Economic Specialization prlnclple and economic productive Worthiness to Guarantee Increases of Economic Returns? . The Research deals with recognition of the stctus quo for the area, production and productivity of the crops and the results refer to clear variation among the productive countries during the period (2000-2002). Some methods of statistic analysis were implemented such as variatiqn analysis and Dunkan method to compare productivity averages among these countries. It was able to classify the productive countries according to their productive worthiness into four productive regions for each crop: The first region producing wheat includes only Egypt, the second one includes only Saudi Arabia while the third includes Syria, Sudan and Lebanon, the Fourth includes Yemen, Iraq, Jordan, Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria. The productive regions for barely includes, Saudi Arabia in the first rank, the second includes only Egypt while the third includes Jordan, Yemen, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Algeria and Morocco, the fourth includes only Tunisia. It was also able to apply the economic especialization principle according to the relative advantages of inputs outputs and exchange rates. It VIas clear that Egypt, Tunisia and Algeria can be specialized in wheat production, while Syria and Jordan can be specialized in barely. This especialization will lead to realize net economic return reaches 718.44 million dollars compared in before especialization with about 38.6% of the wheat imports value for the five mentioned countries. | ||
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