@article{Soliman:208997,
      recid = {208997},
      author = {Soliman, Ibrahim and IMAM, SHAWEY},
      title = {Farm Income as an Incentive for Agricultural Graduate  Farmers in the Reclaimed Land of Egypt},
      address = {1987},
      number = {1860-2016-153048},
      series = {Proceedings of the Conference of Agricultural Sciences on  "Overcome of Food Deficiency through self-reliance in  Egypt" Vol. 5, P. 1179-1190, El Mansoura University,  Faculty of Agriculture, Egypt},
      pages = {11},
      year = {1987},
      note = {Proceedings of the Conference of Agricultural Sciences on  "Overcome of Food Deficiency through self-reliance in  Egypt" Vol. 5, P. 1179-1190, El Mansoura University,  Faculty of Agriculture, Egypt},
      abstract = {In 1977 the  government has started to distribute the  reclaimed land among agricultural graduates. Only during  first year of  settlement , the graduates received support  form the government in terms of grants and credit and some  facilities. The survey was conducted in south-Tahrir area  during 1984 with a proportional stratified random sample of  100 graduated farmers. The purpose of such study is to  evaluate the farm income as an incentive for the graduates  settled in the reclaimed land area . Farm size is 30f  .(traditional crops) or 15f (citrus or fruits) for a  university graduate, and 20f or 10f . for a high school  graduate . several farms have changed the original cropping  pattern leading to a wide range of citrus yield among  farmers and excess demand for water. The normal profit per  feddan ranged between L.E-85.6(barley) and L.E 973.4  (strawberry). Wages of hired labor represent more than 50%  of the variable costs (62% for wheat, 79% for barley). the  graduates asked for mechanization and other   incentives to  solve the problem of labor and costs . the major  constraints in production are the supply shortage of  irrigation water machinery seeds and fertilizers in  addition  to the  land of desert development know –how and  the problems in livestock production  from different  cropping patterns with and only the crops that showed a  normal profit above the poverty line (L.E 2193 per year ).  The proposed crops are citrus. Straw berry, Alfalfa,  lupines and peas, and no traditional corps},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/208997},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.208997},
}