An Economic Study to Estimate the Impact of Price Policies on Rice Production and Consumption in Egypt

    Rice is the staple food for most Egyptian families, where it occupies the second place in the food components of the Egyptian people, which explains the excellence of this crop with quality and abundance of production to occupy the first rank in the quantity of production, and the second rank in terms of quality, as the rice crop is one of the most important export crops For the Egyptian economy, it provides foreign exchange to contribute to the requirements of sustainable development of the state, as it is based on the largest agricultural manufacturing industries in Egypt, which is the rice industry, whose waste is one of the most important components of concentrated animal feed.
   Consumption of crops and food commodities in general is one of the most important indicators identified in the formulation of production, price, marketing, export and import policies for any crop or commodity.Consumption of commodity demand is also associated with many economic variables, whether national or individual.
    The research problem is summarized in the impact of some agricultural policies, the most important of which is the price policy adopted by the State on the production and consumption of all agricultural crops in general, and on the rice crop in particular, in addition to the fact that the farmer under economic liberalization policies is free to take production decisions according to his vision and calculations in the light of mechanisms Supply, demand and movement of prices in the markets without the intervention of the state in this subject, in addition to the conditions of free trade followed globally at the end of the last century, and the conditions required by the importing countries of this crop. Therefore, the main objective of the research is to assess the impact of price policies on rice production and consumption in Egypt.
    The research used two statistical methods: descriptive and quantitative statistical analysis of each of the production indicators (area, productivity and production) in addition to the consumption of rice crop in Egypt during the period (2005-2007), as well as the descriptive and quantitative analysis of both the feddan yield and the items of feddan cost of rice crop in Egypt. It also estimated the economic costs and returns to calculate the nominal and effective protection coefficients, and estimate the cost of local resources (relative advantage factor) through the use of the policy analysis matrix (PAM), and the research was based on data sources from some of the concerned parties to publish data, including the Central Agency for Lioness public statistics, and records of the Department of Statistics and the costs of published secondary datafromCentral Department of Agricultural Economics. Affairs of the Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation of the economy, in addition to resting on some Economic studies and research, references Arab and foreign relevant research topic