%0 Journal Article
%T Virtual Water Trade in Egyptian Agricultural Sector in the Light of Scarcity of Water Resources
%A Gaber Ahmed Bassyouni Shehata
%A Ahmed Hassan Ismaiel Srour
%A Shmoaa Awad Mohamed Soliman Oraby
%A Sahar El-Sayed El-Sayed El-Wakeel
%A Hanan Abd-Elmoneim Mohamed Zahran
%J Open Journal of Social Sciences
%P 162-189
%@ 2327-5960
%D 2023
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/jss.2023.115013
%X Agricultural foreign trade has taken many recent
trends in light of many<span style=\"font-family:;\" \"=\"\"> <span>changes and
developments affecting the global economic environment.</span> Countr<span>ies have resorted to adjusting their trade
policies and reconsidering th</span>e commodity structure of their exports to
suit their resources, especially water resources, in order to maintain the
efficiency of the use of these resources and at the same time increase the
export return. The water issue in Egypt faces major challenges on the demand
side of water in light of the relative stability on the supply side. The state
is working to increase the supply side through the reuse of agricultural
wastewater, seawater desalination, and wastewater treatment. On the demand
side, it is working to develop systems Irrigation, re<span>ducing wastage in the use sectors, moving towards foreign trade by im</span>porting
basic crops, and limiting the export of water-depleting crops to find a <span>balance between the water balance and the
agricultural trade balance, i</span>n which the deficit amounted to about LE
182.5 billion, representing about 23.5% of the deficit in the total trade
balance of about LE 777.42 billion in 2019. The problem of the research is
inefficiency of using the water resource in agricultural exports, as most
components of the Egyptian agricultural exports structure are water-intensive
fruit and vegetable crops, while the contribution of agricultural commodities
that is less in the use of the water resource and the best in the export return
is somewhat limited, which indicates the importance of working on modifying the
structure of Egyptian agricultural exports and re-planning them in line with
the variables related to the scarcity of water resources in Egypt. The main
objective of the research is to propose different alternatives for the optimal
planning of Egyptian agricultural exports, which are characterized by high
export returns and low needs of water resources. The research depends on the
linear programming method as a quantitative <span>method
to measure the phenomena and variables related to the research</span> problem. Related
to the research results, the following can be recommended: 1)</span><span style=\"font-family:;\" \"=\"\"> </span><span style=\"font-family:;\" \"=\"\">Supporting the productive
capacities of producers to export crops that use less water; 2)</span><span style=\"font-family:;\" \"=\"\"> </span><span style=\"font-family:;\" \"=\"\">Reducing the expansion of
exports that use the most water resource by limiting
%K Virtual Water
%K Supply Water
%K Demand
%K Egypt
%K Trade Water
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