Estimating the production efficiency of date farms in the New Valley Governorate

The date fruits are considered one of the most important food for the inhabitants of desert areas, especially the New Valley Governorate. It occupies the leading position distinctively among other agricultural products. It is also considered an agricultural heritage and represents the present and future of the province.
 As the area of ​​palm trees reached about 25.94 thousand feddans in the New Valley Governorate, representing about 22.2% of the total area of ​​the Arab Republic of Egypt, which is about 117.07 thousand feddans. The number of fruitful females of the date palms in the New Valley reached about 1757.87 thousand palm trees, representing about 12.22% of the total number of fruitful females in the Arab Republic of Egypt, which amounted to about 14.38 million date palms.
As for the average productivity of a palm tree in the New Valley, it amounted to about 78.17 kg of palm trees, representing about 68.36% of the total average productivity of a palm tree in the Arab Republic of Egypt, which is about 114.36 kg / palm. As for the total production of palm trees in the New Valley, it amounted to about 137.42 thousand tons, which represents about 8.36% of the total palm production at the level of the Arab Republic of Egypt, and about 1.64 million tons, during the year 2019, and the problem of the study was that the cultivation of date palms in the New Valley governorate.
 To reduce the phenomenon of desertification and its suitability to the environmental conditions and factors to preserve. Despite the availability of space and the number of fruitful females, the average productivity of the palm does not reflect the expectations of this production. The average productivity of a palm tree during the period (2015/2019) was about 80.12 kg / palm tree during the period (2015/2019), while the average productivity of a palm during the same period at the level of the Republic was about 113.65 kg / palm. This necessitates identifying the most important causes of this decline, as the problem of the study is also not to make use of the huge quantities of agricultural residues accumulated from date palms in farms, which results in significant pollution of the environment.
 While this waste contains a large amount of mineral elements, it is lost by burning. Although there is a compost gap that can be closed by recycling this waste and converting it into organic fertilizer that can be used to improve the properties of the soil. The study aims to estimate the efficiency of using the available economic resources. For the production of date palms in the New Valley Governorate, in order to rationalize the use of these resources, the development of production indicators for the production of dates in the New Valley Governorate and the Republic and the estimation of technical efficiency in accordance with the concept of fixed yield and variable yield of capacity for sample farms.
 Estimating the distributional efficiency and economic efficiency of date farms in the New Valley Governorate and estimating the optimal use of economic resources for date farms in the New Valley Governorate that the average cultivated area is from 16.5 acres to 16.3 acres / farm, and the average amount of water needs to be reduced from 1100 to about 1009 thousand cubic meters / On a farm, as well as reducing the amount of organic fertilizer from 1.1 to 1 meters, reducing the amount of municipal fertilizer used from 1.3 to 0.8 cubic meters / farm, and also reducing the layer of nitrogen fertilizer from 140 to 120 tons / farm, and also reducing the amount of phosphate fertilizer from 12 to 8 Tons / farm, and reducing the number of normal employment from 102 to 98 workers / farms, provided that the farm achieves full economic efficiency, as the index value reached 63%.