An Economic Study for The Impact of World Crisis on Wheat Production and Imports in Egypt دراسة اقتصادية لأثر الأزمة العالمية على إنتاج و واردات القمح فى مصر

Abstract

: Advancing the production of strategic crops, especially wheat, is a major goal to meet the increase in local demand for it, as it is one of the crops that aims to achieve food security, as it is the main food for most Egyptians as it is a major source of energy because it contains a large proportion of carbohydrates. The research problem is that despite the increase in The production of the wheat crop in recent years, but this increase is not commensurate with the growing population needs, which led to an increase in the value of imports from it, in light of the rise in the price of the dollar against the pound, in addition to the doubling of its import bill from previous periods, especially in light of the repercussions of Covid-19 and its aftermath, coinciding with the Russian-Ukrainian war, which greatly affected the shape, size and nature of food supplies in the world, especially since these two countries represent the largest part of the food basket for grain crops, which was It has a negative impact on the economies of the countries of the world, which in turn led to the occurrence of successive inflationary waves in its prices, and the ensuing effects on all other sectors, which constitutes a great burden on the countries that import large quantities of it, including Egypt. The research reached a set of results, the most important of which are