Economics of grain production in Arab countries

Abstract

The demand for economic integration in the agricultural field among Arab countries is one of the current and strategic demands, especially in the circumstances of globalization, and given the widening food gap at the level of the Arab world as a whole, and at the level of each individual country, which increases the importance of identifying aspects of this problem is the difficulty of a single country to exploit all its resources as a result of the apparent imbalance in the distribution of those resources, and therefore this study aimed to monitor the most important aspects of Arab agricultural integration in the field of grain production. The problem of research is the difficulty of any individual country to take advantage of all its resources as a result of the apparent imbalance in the distribution of those resources, so it requires the need to achieve full integration among all Arab countries to provide food requirements, especially grain, but it is met with many challenges that the research seeks to monitor and try to overcome what can be overcome to allow the transfer of capital, employment and productive goods, in order to strengthen their competitiveness in the face of global blocs, and the research aimed at monitoring the most important aspects of Arab agricultural integration by reaching the most appropriate quantitative estimate of the grain production function, To identify the most important factors affecting their production in the Arab world, as well as to estimate the flexibilities of this productive function and research on how to invest these results to develop agricultural production, in addition to analysing the reasons for different grain production from one Arab country to another and researching how to increase its production in the Arab world as a whole. Taking advantage of the Hiamy and Rutan model to estimate and analysis the causes of variation and difference in agricultural productivity in the Arab countries, data related to the subject of the study have been relied upon from statistics, reports and studies of regional, Arab, and international organizations and bodies.