An economic study of the Strawberries production in Egypt

Strawberries are one of the most important non-traditional vegetable crops with a high nutritional value and a high yield for farms compared to other horticultural crops, as they are important export crops and the area planted in Egypt is about 31.9 thousand Fadden, producing about 544.9 thousand tons. (2019), the area under cultivation increases annually by about 7.06% offset by an increase in production by 8. 39%, the research problem is that despite the continuous increase in strawberry-grown spaces, But the total quantity of production is reduced, this may be due to the volatility of productivity and the amount of loss that sometimes exceeds one-third of production. The research aimed to reach the reasons for this by assessing the productive efficiency of the resources used and estimating the economic efficiency and production costs of the strawberry crop during the period (2005-2019). For the study sample of strawberry farms, the results illustrated the existence of an exclusive relationship between the production of strawberry crop and both, Human labor, municipal fertilizer, oily fertilizer, potassium fertilizer, and number of seedlings. The amount of production that maximizes profit, and the amount of production that reduces costs, was estimated at a total cost of 26.50 tons/acres, achieved at about 4.35%. The quantity of production that decreased costs was about 19.66 tons/acres, achieved at about 54% of the total farmers in the study sample, and in export farms it was about 25.76 tons/acres, and achieved about 32% of the farmers of this category, for the amount of production that low costs achieved by all exporters, it is recommended to increase the production capacity of strawberry farms to increase productive efficiency.