Production and Marketing of Faba Bean Crop in Egypt

The research aimed to study the current situation of faba bean crop production in Egypt by studying the evolution of cultivated area of ​​it, production, costs, consumption and imports of faba bean crop. In addition to study the marketing margins and marketing efficiency of faba bean crop and aimed to study the most important factors affecting on imports quantity of faba Bean crop, and estimate policy analysis matrix.
The most important results were that: the area and production of faba bean crop decreased by a statistically significant annual rate. While productivity, production costs, total revenue, net revenue, imports quantity and food gap of faba bean crop increased by a statistically significant annual rate during the period 2000-2018.
The average of wholesaler share was 2.02 pound per kilogram (28.33%) of retail price. The average of retailer share was 1.17 pound per kilogram (16.41%) of the retail price. The average of producer share from the consumer’s pound was 60.18% (4.29 pounds per kilogram) of faba beans, and intermediaries share was 39.82% (2.84 pounds per kilogram) of faba beans.
The function of imports quantity for faba bean was statistically significant, and the coefficient of determination was 0.96. There was statistically significant negative relationship between the imports quantity and production quantity. While there were statistically significant positive relationship between the imports quantity of faba bean and the average per capita of faba bean, and exchange rate.
The results of the policy analysis matrix showed that nominal protection coefficient of the output of faba bean in Egypt during the period 2010-2018 was 0.74, nominal protection coefficient of the input was 0.93, Effective protection coefficient was 0.72, and comparative advantage coefficient was 0.39. The economic surplus of the faba bean crop was 3263.15 pound per feddan, which means increase economic profitability over financial profitability.