Increase of Wheat Crop in Egypt by cultivating it in Some Areas of Cultivating Trefoil

摘要

Although wheat is one of the most important strategic goods in the Egyptian agriculture, the cultivated land of it did not exceed 3.15 million feddans which represents 45.9% of the areas of winter crops and about 21.2% of the crop areas which represent 14. 83 million feddans in 2012. Egypt nowadays is facing two main economic problems which are wheat availability problem which is a current long-level problem as population in Egypt increases by 2% every year and the cultivated land in general is decreased continuously as a result of population expansion which is the challenge that Egypt faces leading to a continuous increase in the size of food gap of wheat crop in addition to Egypt's big problem which is the Budget deficit. The study aimed at working on increasing wheat crop through adopting the state to cultivate wheat crop in some areas of cu ltivating trefoil crop. The study concluded that, in case of cultivating wheat in about 20% of the areas that are allocated to trefo il crop, the amount of production of the wheat crop in Egypt increases by about 757.703 thousand tons that help in covering the food gap in this crop by about 8.4%, and the decline in the value of imports of this crop is estimated by about 185.6 million dollars. In addition, the cultivation of wheat crop in some areas of trefo il crop is working on providing large quantities of water for irrigation of about 632.359 million cubic meters that can be used in the cultivation of wheat crop in other areas such as new lands and increase the self-sufficiency ratio of this crop or cultiv ate any other economic crops. Therefore, the study recommended working on raising farmers' awareness to reduce the trefoil areas by about 20% and work on cultivating high-yield wheat varieties, in every area according to the available environmental conditions.