Economic Study of Desertification in Egypt

Document Type : Original Article

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1 Agricultural Economics, Department of Economics and Agricultural Business Administration, College of Agriculture, University of Alexandria.

2 Full-time Professor of Agricultural Economics, Department of Economics and Agricultural Business Administration, College of Agriculture, University of Alexandria.

3 General Manager of the Egyptian Customs Authority

Abstract

Desertification is very briefly the transformation of
agricultural land into non-agricultural land where it is
lost, The nature of its agricultural economic mission.
The problem is that the horizontal agricultural
expansion in Egypt through the reclamation of the land
is very limited, it does not exceed 37.3 thousand acres
annually. The main objective of this research is to study
the aspects of the research problem, namely the limited
horizontal agricultural expansion, the exposure of the
agricultural land to complete and partial desertification,
the identification of the risks and the submission of
proposals that help to solve the problem. the results and
recommendations of the most important as followes:
The total and partial desertification is estimated
together through the study of the mobility of the Degrees
and the violations by about 748,252 thousand standard
acres and that compensation for this loss in agricultural
land requires.
Agricultural expansion horizontally through the
reclamation of land in Egypt is very limited and does not
exceed 37.7 thousand acres annually and the total
reclamation does not exceed only 6.12% of the target in
land reclamation plans.

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