The economics of the production and consumption of oil seeds in Arab countries

Abstract

The main Problem of the study is big gap between domestic production and consumption Egyptian vegetable oils to meet the increasing needs of consumer's, Production of vegetable oils in Egypt was stimulate about 293.02 thousand tons on average for the period (2006-2010), while the average domestic consumption was about 938.27 thousand tons during the same period, which means there is a gap in the vegetable oil amounted to 645.25 thousand tons, requiring imports a large amount of vegetable oil was estimated at 694.68 thousand tons on average for the period (2006-2010), the monetary value of which amounted to 823.96 million dollars, representing about 4.48 % of the average deficit in the national balance of trade which was about 18.38 billion dollars as the average for the same period. Therefore, the current research aimed at assessing study of the status of production and consumption of vegetable oils and analysis define the gap of vegetable oils in Egypt. In addition, the study tries also to identify the most important factors affecting consumption. The results showed that the ratio of exports to imports of vegetable oils amounted to about 9.76% which is low compared to cover the total exports to imports in whole or in food exports to food imports, amounting to about 53.63%, 34.3% each respectively during the period (2006-2010). Oils produced in Egypt based mainly on soybeans, cotton seeds, peanuts, and flax seeds, sunflower, and sesame crops. The results showed that coefficient of instability for each of the area and the productivity and production of those crops, the yield of sesame, which is ranked first in terms of stability indicators productivity crop followed by groundnut, cotton, and sunflower, which is ranked last crop of soybeans. The crops were all characterized by relative stability, where the value of transactions close to the instability of zero for all productivity indicators for all oil crops. The results it turns out showed that the average per capita vegetable oils k.g / year is responsible for 81% of the change in quantity consumed from vegetable oils, by increasing this variable by 1% lead to the increase in the quantity of oil consumed by 0.91%. in is also shown that the total amount of oil imports is responsible for 49% of the changes in the quantity consumed of oils, by increasing this variable by 1% leads an to increase in the quantity of oil consumed by 0.36% during the period (1995-2010).