ANALYTICAL STUDY FOR THE OPTIMAL DISTRIBUTION OF EGYPTIAN EXPORTS AND IMPORTS OF SUGAR

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1 Faculty of Agriculture, Fayoum University.

2 Agricultural Economics Research Institute, Agricultural Research Center

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Foreign trade directly affects the level of national income by exporting a part of on country's own production and importing part of the other countries produce. While there is an increasing in the total production of sugar, where the amount of production in 2012 was about one million tons and reached about 2.25 million tons in 2017, an increase of 1.25 million tons, however, this increase does not cope with the increase in population and then local consumption, which leads to resorting to imports. Therefore, this research aims to analyze the proposed scenarios that represent the best geographical distribution of sugar exports and imports. The results of the programming Goals indicated that the optimal scenario for the structure of export distribution of cane sugar is the second solution of the first scenario, that maximizes the export revenue, which represents the countries with the highest export price per ton of cane sugar. For cane sugar imports, the best scenario was the second solution of the first scenario that minimizes the imports price, which represents the countries with the lowest import price per ton of cane sugar. For beet sugar exports, the best scenario is the second solution of the first scenario that maximizes the export revenue, which represents the countries with the highest exports price per ton of beet sugar. For beet sugar imports, the best scenario was the second solution of the third scenario that minimizes the import price, which represents the lowest price countries and the closest in distance to Egypt

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