An Economic Study to Analyze the Productive and Economic Efficiency of the Production of some Summer Vegetable Crops in Beheira Governorate

The results of the study showed that summer vegetable crops (potatoes, tomatoes, dry white beans, super pulp watermelons) in Buhaira Governorate can be arranged according to their efficiency in the use of productive and economic resources, where the summer potato crop came in first in terms of productivity per feddan, revenue and the net return per fedan, Followed by the crop (tomatoes, dry white beans, and watermelon super pulp in the second, third, and fourth place, respectively, on the other hand, the white dry beans crop came in first in terms of relative profitability and the rate of return on the invested pound, followed by the crop (super pulp watermelon, potatoes, tomatoes) in the second, third, and fourth place, respectively, during the production season 2021/2022.
From the results of the efficiency analysis, it was found that the summer vegetable crops in the research sample in Beheira governorate were wasted in chemical fertilizers (nitro, phosphate, potassium), the wasted amount of nitrogen fertilizer at the level of the area planted with crops (potatoes, tomatoes, dry beans, super pulp watermelons) in agricultural associations and representative centers of the sample and Buhaira Governorate amounted to about (271.1, 596.8, 1109.1) tons, respectively, of urea fertilizer at a cost of about (1561478, 3437852, 6388321) pounds, at the level of the area cultivated with these crops, the amount of phosphate fertilizer wasted for the total area of summer vegetables was about (274.1, 970.1, 1823.8) tons of superphosphate at a cost of (498,940, 1765600, 3319316) pounds, respectively. Finally, the amount of potassium nitrate wasted for the area planted with the aforementioned crops at the level of agricultural associations, centers and governorate (250.4, 786.9, 1421.9) tons at a cost of (2443772, 7680099, 13877871) pounds, respectively.
And it became clear from the economic effect of estimating efficiency on production and production costs of summer vegetable crops in the research sample that the average productivity is a crop (potatoes, tomatoes, dry white beans, watermelon super pulp) in Beheira Governorate, it is exposed to a loss in the amount of production at the level of agricultural associations and centers represented by the research sample and the Beheira Governorate, estimated at (494.1, 327, 63.3, 14.9) tons, respectively, at the level of the area planted with these crops in the agricultural associations, at the level of the centers represented by the sample, it is estimated about (2727.7, 401.1, 603.5, 56) tons, respectively, and for the Buhaira governorate, the loss in the amount of production for the study crops is estimated at (4740.3, 718.6, 1108.7, 133.2) tons, respectively, As a result, the farms of those crops suffered losses estimated at about (1318, 879, 1013, 328) thousand pounds at the level of agricultural associations, and at the level of centers, the losses of farms were estimated at about (7274, 1078, 9657, 1232) thousand pounds, and at the level of the Buhaira governorate exposes crop farms (potatoes, tomatoes, dry white beans, and super pulp watermelons) to losses estimated at (12641, 1931, 17740, 2931) thousand pounds, respectively.
Therefore, farmers of these crops can, by not wasting the resources used in the production process and by redistributing those resources used, reduce the production costs of the crop (potatoes, tomatoes, dry white beans, super pulp watermelons) at the level of the cultivated area in agricultural associations by about (1456, 684, 886, 358) thousand pounds, respectively, and at the level of the centers representing the research sample, they amounted to about (8037, 839, 8450, 1344) thousand pounds, and at the level of the Buhaira governorate (13967, 1503, 15522, 3197) thousand pounds, respectively, while maintaining the same level. from production.