Treating Berseem as a Traded Good in the Calculation of Social Returns

摘要

A 1979 study of Egyptian agricultural prices made by the Economic Studies Unit in the Ministry of Economy was reviewed. In this study, private returns and social returns per feddan were computed for nine feasible crop rotations. The divergence between private and social profitability was notable; the ranking was nearly opposite. The two top rotations for private returns were berseem/rice and berseem/maize.