Economics of Rain-Fed Agriculture in North Coast in the West

This study was conducted northwest coast area where available a vast area where the coastal plain stretches along the coast and has a maximum depth of his at El Alamein (2.5 km) and disappears in other places such as Vukh and wisdom It is characterized by the presence of many heads and prominent depth in the sea, the most important head Dabaa The beginning of wisdom is composed of many bays are so different elevations plateau extends southward gradual rise until it reaches the Siwa that the low level of up to 27 m below sea level and then begins the Great Sand Sea                                                                                                                      
And the problem has been to study in the province is one of nature provinces own in terms of the availability of economic resources, particularly agricultural resources and of the availability of agricultural arable land in spite of variation in irrigation water necessary resources to cultivate those lands where resides the preservation areas irrigated by the waters of the Nile through the canal bathroom and its extension within the borders of the province is agricultural land and fed the canal areas accounted for about 17.5% of the arable land in the governorate,                                    
And the study also sought to achieve many of the goals, including the current status of rain-fed crops characterization of Matrouh Governorate, with the identification of the geographical distribution and qualitative of those crops, in addition to the economic study of the economic efficiency  and productive efficiency of the main rainfed crops in the study area. The study found a number of results, including:- that the net yield of irrigated wheat crop was about 2210 pounds, while the net return of the cost retio about 492.8 pounds, while showing that the cost of agricultureproduction represents the best investment opportunity rain-fed wheat crop cultivated Rainy system where there has been a return of about 151.9 pounds, while they cause the loss of about 460 pounds.
And the study also found that the net yield of irrigated agriculture to crop figs was about 7510 pounds, while the net return of the opportunity cost of about 1243.1 pounds, which means productive activity preference for the cultivation of the crop fig about the opportunity cost of this activity represents a better investment opportunity .                                                            
And the study recommendations, including: the need to develop a specific time plan to set up the infrastructure to harvest rainwater and provide Altmioalah sources needed to identify the needs of the study area of ​​dams and reservoirs which absorb rainwater quantities and appropriately to maintain the water resources that can be harvested North Coast area