The Role of Quality Systems in Developing Egyptian Agricultural Exports

Abstract

he quality of agricultural exports is one of the most important foundations on which to develop and improve these exports to global markets. Therefore, studying the effect of applying quality standards on increasing agricultural exports is one of the most im portant determinants for improving the system of those exports. By studying the relative importance of agricultural crops in the research sample, which is represented by potatoes and onions from vegeta ble crops, oranges and grapes from fruit crops, it was found that exports of potatoes and onions rep resent about 25%, 21% of total vegetable exports as an average for the period (2014-2018), while or ange exports represent About 53% of fruit exports are about 24% of the average fruit exports for the aforementioned period. By studying the effect of applying quality standards on agricultural crops from the beginning of produc tion for export, it was found that applying these standards leads to a reduction in agricultural losses from the crop by a rate ranging between (20-15)%. Also, the application of quality standards leads to an increase in the costs of production and marketing of the crop, but in return, the increase in costs can be compensated for by the increase in profit through higher prices at home and abroad, in addition to benefiting from the percentage of losses that are saved. With regard to the actual effect of implementing quality, the results concluded that the rate of change before the application of quality and after the appli cation in relation to an increase in the production of the best crop is orange by 50%. The potato crop came with a 500% increase in profits, and about 355% of the return on the pound per ton.