ANALYSIS OF THE ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS RESULTING FROM FOOD INDUSTRY IN EGYPT | ||
| Journal of Environmental Science | ||
| Article 24, Volume 43, Issue 1, September 2018, Pages 661-680 PDF (327.55 K) | ||
| Document Type: Review Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/jes.2018.30893 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Abdel Monem, Zainab, L1; Mandour, A. F2; Abdel Aal, M. H2 | ||
| 1Institute of Environmental Studies and Research, Ain Shams University | ||
| 2Faculty of Commerce, Ain Shams University | ||
| Abstract | ||
Food industries consider one of the significant basic pillars sectors in Egypt that deal with crucial topic inked to human beings' lives and their nutritional security. Food industries have developed recently in the last few year to occupy a fundamental position among the state's main resources and economics. This industry is characterized by producing outcome from agricultural production involving its two-fold divisions, the plant and animal. Despite the fact that each industry of these has common inputs similar in their general properties for giving products its specific qualifications, each has its own natural and chemical traits that contributes improving the citizens' nutritional balance, growing of areas, in addition to role as a resource of foreign currency by exportation to other countries. This study discusses the economic and environmental impacts of food industries in meat sector. The analytical method is used. Using also the deductive approach that depends on collecting necessary data and information to be analyzed and extract results. Results indicate that food industries in meat sector have a significant influence in economic development results in importation and exportations. It also has a significant impact on economic growth as there is a direct correlation between food industries and economic growth.Consequently, the state should consider and care of food industry sector for the purpose of raising efficiency of productive performance in companies, developing and promoting food industries in Egypt which is set in priorities of the up-to-date programs for being capable of competitive advantages in world markets. | ||
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