Impact of wheat policy on irrigated wheat production in Jordan
1990
Al-Habbab, M.S. | Jabarin, A.S. (Jordan Univ., Amman (Jordan). Dept. of Agricultural Economics and Extension)
Main objective of this research is to evaluate the government wheat policy in the irrigated regions of Jordan Valley and the southern desert, using a quantitative policy analysis. Wheat production under irrigation was found inefficient compared with tomato production in the Jordan Valley and with alfalfa in the southern desert of Jordan. On the other hand the DRC was found to be 0.42 for wheat produced in the Jordan Valley, which meant that wheat production in this region makes an efficient use of the domestic resources, but when the revenues of tomato in the same area were used as the shadow price of land, the DRC become 4,53, which meant that production of tomato in Jordan Valley was more efficient in the use of resources than the wheat. In the southern desert, also, the DRC's were one or less, when the cost of water (private price and social price) were estimated as 27 fils/m3 and 83.92 fils/m3, respectively. However, when the price of water was set as its municipal use rates, the DRC reached 2.85 and 2.45 for summer and winter wheat respectively, and for alfalfa it was estimated to be 1.86. The domestic wheat consumption was 575.000 t (1988), 28% of which was locally produced. Production of irrigated wheat in Jordan in the same year was 25.700 t, about 9% of the total consumption
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