The strawberry is considered one of the most promising horticultural crops in foreign
markets, as Egypt's total exports of strawberry reached about 39 thousand tons, at a value of 73
million$, which is approximately 9% of production in 2015, which amounts to about 428 thousand
tons of a total area of 22 thousand fedden for the same year. Egypt ranked sixth with an average
production about 327.1 thousand tons and with a relative importance about 4% of the strawberry
production at the globally during the period (2013/2015) and it was found that there is a comparative
advantage for Qalubia Governorate in the cultivation and production of strawberry. The research
problem was as follows: Despite the increase in the contribution of the crop to agricultural exports,
but there is a variation of fedden productivity in Qalyubia governorate for the frego strawberry
compared to the fresh strawberry, therefore it must be applied with the application of technology
beginning with the cultivation of fresh seedlings is highly productive, and the use of modern
irrigation methods (drip irrigation) to rationalize the use of water, and work to raise the efficiency of
using available resources to achieve the highest possible return. The most important of result that, the
net revenue per feddan of fresh strawberry reached 68.20 thousand pound compared about 24.02
thousand pound for frego strawberry, an increase about 44.18 thousand pound per feddan, compared
to frego strawberry. While the ratio of the total return to the total costs of fresh strawberry was about
2.08 compared to 1.61 for frego strawberry, which indicates the superiority of the untraditional style
over the traditional pattern by 0.47, and the profits of the pound invested per fedden of fresh
strawberry. About 1.08 pounds compared about 0.61 piasters for the traditional pattern, an increase of
about 0.47 piasters, compared to the traditional style, while the total margin per fedden of frego
strawberry reached 71.60 thousand pound per fedden compared to 29.52 thousand pound for frego
strawberry (traditional), with an increase estimated about 42.08 thousand pound per fedden, compared
to the traditional pattern. The monthly yield of fedden from fresh strawberry reached about 7.58
thousand pound compared to 2.67 thousand pound for the traditional style, an increase about 4.91
thousand pound per fedden per month, compared to the traditional pattern. The product incentive per
fedden of fresh strawberry reached 51.94% compared to about 37.92% for the traditional pattern, an
increase about 14.02% between the two patterns, which confirms the previous indications that the
cultivation of the untraditional pattern (fresh strawberry) for production and economic efficiency
exceeds the cultivation of the traditional pattern (frego strawberry) |
