ECONOMICS OF MAJOR VEGETABLES GROWN IN GREEN HOUSES IN THE NEW LANDS

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The objectives of this research were to study the economics of green houses, through identifying constraints of production capacity and economic efficiency in Egypt in general, and studying the targeted vegetables crops in particular.It also targeted the financial assessment of these houses.The research also covered the cost and return and sensitivity to the dominant risks.This research relied on descriptive and quantitive economic analysis by using mathematic models from the perspective of the World Bank rules.This research is based on published secondary data from official establishments such as Ministry of Agriculture and CAPMAS.It also depended on data compiled from a form of random sample of about 130 green houses in Bahariya Oasises in 2014.It used sampling fraction about 3% of cucumber, pepper and green beans houses with number of 50, 40 and 40 houses respectively.Some references and subject related studies were also studied.Financial analysis reveals that all crops targeted by this study achieved production efficiency as profit gained was larger than opportunity cost.The most profitable crop was pepper, followed by green beans then cucumber.IRR of the three crops were 295%, 97% and 95%, respectively.This indicates that the invested pound in cucumber, pepper and green beans in plastic house profits 0.95, 2.95 and 0.97 pound, respectively.This is more than opportunity cost and achieves the economical efficiency.Payback period for the capital is estimated by about 1.06, 0.34 and 1.03 year, respectively.The findings obtained suggested restoring the invested capital within less than a year for pepper and less than two years in the case of cucumber and green pepper.Based on what mentioned previously, economic feasibility of cucumber, pepper and green beans produced in houses is highly assured.

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