Document Type : Original Article
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Agricultural Economics Dept., Faculty of Agriculture (Saba Basha), Alexandria University
Abstract
The agricultural sector is considered the most important pillar of the Egyptian economic structure, for its contribution to economic development by increasing the national income, by increasing exports and decreasing imports, and then providing the food and non-food needs of the community, but at the same time Egyptian agriculture suffers from the increasing rates of waste in some products. Sesame crop (Sesam) is one of the most important oil crops in Egypt. and most of them are subject to agricultural waste, whether production or marketing, and the research problem is represented in the high percentage of waste during production stages and various agricultural operations and also during marketing of the sesame crop, the size of which varies according to the efficiency of each stage, as the amount of waste increases as the crop dries up, as well as the quantity Wastes resulting from harvesting, birds, transportation, storage and infection with fungi, and then affecting the volume of waste. Which negatively affects its productivity, and waste the resources used in its production, Which results in achieving losses for the farms, and the study showed that the total loss during production (productive loss) of the sesame crop in the study sample amounted to about 18.75 kg, and represented in losses as a result of weather conditions, and losses as a result of insects, pests and birds, and the highest production loss was as a result of insects and pests. And birds, followed by the losses as a result of weather conditions, and the total marketing loss of the sesame crop in the study sample was about 27.3 kg / ton, represented in the losses of collection, sorting, packing and transportation, then the losses as a result of the sorting and grading process, and finally the losses as a result of the transportation process. It was found through the questionnaire form on the subject of the study that the most important proposals and solutions to confront these problems and reduce that loss are the provision of production requirements at reasonable prices and the provision of price control, the provision of varieties resistant to fungal diseases and with high productivity, the provision of machines for automatic harvesting, the provision of appropriate and equipped collection and storage centers , the speed of marketing the crop through activating the role of agricultural extension.
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