An Economic Analytical Study Meat Gap in Egypt

meat derived it's importance of being a major animal proteins necessary for life and calorie source and reflected meat problem in the local production is unable to cover the consumption of it and thus lower per capita for preventive health limit study aims to estimate and measure the food gap of meat and prospects and to propose a set of policies and procedures that can be introduced to limit the growth of this gap in the future The study used the descriptive and quantitative statistical analysis methods.
The study shown that the local production of red meat increased over the study period 1995-2013 with Annual growth rate of about an average of 2.8%, It is expected that production up to about 1131 Thousand Tons at 2018, 1176 Thousand Tons at 2020, as for The consumption of red meat has an annual growth rate of which was estimated at 2.3 % During the period referred to, It is expected that the consumption of red meat the size of up to about 1329 Thousand Tons at 2018, 1375 Thousand Tons at 2020 .
The Study also revealed that the fish production has increased over the period 1995-2013 at a rate of as much as an annual growth of about 6.8% and is expected to fish production up to about 1.7 , 1.8 million tons in 2018, 2020 respectively while consumption has been estimated annual growth his rate of about 5.8% and shows consumption forecasts of fish consumption to reach about 1.9 million tons a year 2018 ,2 million Tons in 2020.
The study suggested that agricultural policies focused during the next phase on four main themes to limit the growth of red meat, fish gap.
1- Increasing poultry and fish meat production.
2- Improving the efficiency of utilized resources in livestock production.
3- Implementing Structural changes to improve the efficiency of livestock and livestock products marketing system.
4- Benefiting from the Arab free trade area and African commessa in implementing joint projects for animal production and trade.