THE DETERMINANTS OF EXTERNAL DEMAND FOR EXPORTS OF EGYPTIAN FROZEN VEGETABLE

The problem of research is facing Egyptian exports of frozen vegetables in general, and the mixture of frozen vegetables in particular, with intensecompetition in foreign markets, which requiresstudying this problem and proposing appropriatesolutions to it. Therefore, the research aimed tostudy means of developing and increasing agricultural exports of Egyptian frozen vegetables. Theresearch focused on the exports of the Egyptianfrozen vegetable mixture, as it was found that itranked first among the total Egyptian exports offrozen vegetables during the period (2014-2018),where it represented about 70.1% of the totalquantities.The research has reached some conclusions,including:The time trend equations for the quantity, valueand price of Egyptian exports for both frozen vegetables and frozen vegetable mixtures were estimated during the period (2004-2018). It turned outthat the ratio of the increase to the average in boththe quantity and value of exports of frozen vegetables mixture is greater than that in the total frozenvegetables. By studying the geographical distribution, the most important importing countries for theEgyptian frozen vegetable mixture were identifiedduring the period (2014-2018), namely Saudi Arabia, America, France.By studying the market share index of the mostimportant importing markets for frozen vegetablesmixture shows that Egypt occupies the first positionin the list of countries exporting frozen vegetablesmixtures in the Saudi market during the period(2010-2012) with an amount of exports estimatedat about 4.9 thousand tons and a market share ofabout 72.2%.By studying The External of individual demandfor the Egyptian frozen vegetable mixture in theSaudi market shows that an increase in the priceof Egypt by 1% leads to a decrease in Egypt's exports to Saudi Arabia by 0.89%. A 1% decrease inIndia’s price leads to a decrease in Egypt’s exportsby 0.89, meaning that there is a significant impactof price changes and that India is a competitor toEgypt within the Saudi market.The research recommended1. Study the non-price competitive reasons, asEgypt has a competitive price advantage, yetits market share in the Saudi market is decreasing (it may be due to taste, packaging,export facilities, etc.).2. The competitive advantage between Egypt andIndia is decreasing more than the other twocompeting countries (Spain, Belgium).3. Focus on studying the reasons for India's increasing competitiveness of Egyptian exports.4. There is an effect of price competition, especially with Mexican and Chinese exports, and itis recommended that this price competitive advantage be improved in favor of Egypt.5. Italy is the largest competitor in the Frenchmarket (it has a significant price impact onEgypt's exports, followed by Spain).