An Economic Study of Estimating Cost Function of Dates Production in Wadi al-Shati and Sebha municipalities, South Libya

Faisal Shalloof (1) , Ahmad Aridah (2)
(1) Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, Omar Al-Mukhtar University, El-Beida, Libya,
(2) Department of Agricultural Economics, College of Agriculture, Sebha University, Sebha, Libya

Abstract

The results showed that fixed cost represented about(45%) of the total cost of two municipalities, also the variable cost amounted to approximately (55%) the total cost of the two municipalities, and that the optimal size of the production of dates amounted to approximately (4.22, 3.77) tons per hectare for each of these municipalities  Wadi al-Shati and Sebha, respectively, and that production was more than the average actual production of dates for the mentioned municipalities by nearly (1.36, 1.27) tons per hectare , while reported results that the production that maximize profit of dates have hit (7.15, 12.75) tons per hectare for each of the municipalities (Wadi al-Shati and Sebha), and that production is more than the actual production of dates by (4.29, 10.25) tons per hectare of mentioned municipalities respectively. It also showed the results of the field study that the average price per ton of harvest dates had been hit (900.20, 1185.60) dinars for each of community-mentioned study sample.

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Faisal Shalloof
Ahmad Aridah
Shalloof, F., & Aridah, . A. (2017). An Economic Study of Estimating Cost Function of Dates Production in Wadi al-Shati and Sebha municipalities, South Libya. Journal of Pure & Applied Sciences , 16(1), 136-144. https://doi.org/10.51984/jopas.v16i1.974

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Shalloof, F., & Aridah, . A. (2017). An Economic Study of Estimating Cost Function of Dates Production in Wadi al-Shati and Sebha municipalities, South Libya. Journal of Pure & Applied Sciences , 16(1), 136-144. https://doi.org/10.51984/jopas.v16i1.974

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