USING THE POLICY ANALYSIS MATRIX TO EVALUATE THE ECONOMIC POLICY OF TOMATO AND POTATO CROPS IN EGYPT

Agricultural policy in Egypt has tended in recentyears to make some structural changes in order tomaximize the economic return in light of the technical possibilities and local and international economics of agricultural production determinants.some Food crops, industrial and export important inEgypt, and is a source of agricultural income, In order to determine the features of agricultural pricepolicy for most important vegetable crops in Egypt,it was possible to calculate the matrix of agriculturalpolicy analysis, to clarify the extent of deviationof lacal market prices for tomato and potato cropsand world prices to identify the levels of distortionsin the commodity markets and the degree of nonemployment of resources, as well as the calculationof the nominal and effective protection factors. Toidentify the price policies adopted by the state,whether the policy of subsidies or taxation ofproducers of agricultural crops, as well as thecalculation of the cost factor of the local resource todetermine the comparative advantage. We conclude from the above and based on the results ofthe Matrix of Agricultural Policy Analysis for Tomatoand Potato Crops in Egypt during the averageperiod (2011-2017) that the country’s productivepolicy during the study period had any affection cropproducers represented in tax rate 14.742, 12.489pounds. Which do not compare with the supportprovided to them, which averaged about 93,189pounds per acre, respectively. Tomato and potatocrops have an advantage that can be used to increase their exports in the global markets, which require integration between the state and the privatesector to activate the ability of crop producers to export. And Egyptian potatoes, and on this the studyrecommends the necessity of improving the pricesof production requirements for the crops understudy in a manner commensurate with the continuous increase in production costs in order to work onincreasing farm income and addressing negativesarising from C Tax of SAT in high production costsand made available at affordable prices.