A comparative study between organic farming and the traditional cultivation of some medicinal and aromatic plants in the New Valley Governorate
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https://doi.org/10.55627/ijss.003.02.0545Keywords:
Organic farming, traditional farming, cumin, fennel. Governorate, pricesAbstract
The policy analysis matrix for the fennel crop in organic agriculture in the New Valley Governorate indicates the average period (2019-2021), where the negative impact of both revenues and the total work element and the land rent, which was estimated at 0.69, 0.239, 0.919 thousand pounds/acre, while there is a positive impact for each of the requirements, the net return, which was estimated at 0.051 and 1.727 thousand pounds/acre, respectively. The nominal and effective protection factors and the cost of local resources for the cumin crop in organic agriculture in the New Valley Governorate during the period (2019-2021) indicate that the local price of a ton of cumin is greater than its price at the border, and this means that the cumin farmer gets only about 1.24% of the value produced at the global price, and this means that there are no implicit taxes borne by the survivor of the cumin crop. As for the fennel crop, the fennel farmer receives only about 2.09% of the value produced at the world price, which means that there are no implicit taxes borne by the fennel crop. The effective protection factor for cumin and fennel crops in organic agriculture in the New Valley Governorate during the period (2019-2021), for the cumin crop, the effective protection factor was about 0.76, meaning that the added value of the crop at local prices is less than its counterpart evaluated at shadow prices, which confirms that there are implicit taxes on the producers of the cumin crop amounted to about 0.24%. As for the fennel crop, the effective protection factor was about 0.84, meaning that the value added of the crop at local prices is lower than its counterpart evaluated at shadow prices, which confirms that there are implicit taxes. The results of the relative importance of the productive problems facing the farmers of medicinal and aromatic plants in the study sample also showed that the most important problems are low yield and low productivity, tenure fragmentation and small production.
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