Apple plays a substantial role in both income generation and job
creation has shown an increase in export volume. Therefore ,
a study was conducted in the Governorate of Homs on apple ,
( 16 ) Villages that are well known for the growing of apple
fruits
were chosen by random sample method through season
2012 – 2013 for Study of economic indicators of irrigated and
rain fed apple in Governorate of Homs.
Study used Agricultural policy analysis matrix to define the impact
of economic policies applied on the farm budget of apple , to this
end the criteria of nominal and actual protection , profitability , and
farmers subsidies were used , and the criteria that measures the
comparative advantage is domestic resources cost .
The conclusions of the study reveal as follow :
- For fresh irrigated apple in governorate of Homs : production of
apple are feasible under private and social conditions , the value
of social revenues is greater than the value of private revenues
this means the government is taxing producers , there is finance
support by the government for this product , the effect of all
policies on prices of inputs and outputs are advantage of
producers , and there is comparative advantage to product fresh
irrigated apple in governorate of Homs because Domestic
Resource Cost ( DRC = 0.91 ) was less than one .
- For fresh rain fed apple in governorate of Homs : production of
apple are feasible under private and social conditions , there is
finance support by the government for this product , the
government is taxing domestic resources , the effect of all policies
on prices of inputs and outputs are advantage of producers , and
there is comparative advantage to product fresh rain fed apple in
governorate of Homs .
Finally , we showed appropriate recommendations to improve
Domestic Resources Cost and thus improve the Relative
advantage and competitiveness of irrigated and rain fed apple ,
whereat it included ways for the improvement of the Relative
advantage and competitiveness during the production process and internal and external marketing .
The search aims to give a total idea about the resent situation of apples marketing in
Syria generally, and Tartous Province, specially. 750 research forms have been organized.
Randomly(350) forms have been distributed to apples farmers in Tartous,
and(92)
consumers, (65) ones to each trader and exporter in the wholesale markets, in Tartous
Province.
According to the results of the study the farmers, weakness in the performance of
the marketing operations is the reason of problems and difficulties that apples marketing
suffer from it, where the Calibration and choosing the type of the cans according to the
capacity and the recommendations of market in terms of quality and quantity when
determining the marketing appointment.
The study has also taked about rising of apple's marketing margin and lowing of
apple's marketing efficiency .So the study explained the reason of apple's marketing
weakness and gave recommendations to improve it .
Fruits' trading is considered one of the most important agricultural trades
in Syria, due to its big incomings and its role in supporting the national
economy. GAFTA members are representing the biggest partner for Syria in
this trade.
The aim of
this research was to assess the impact of GAFA on the exports
and imports of orange and apple which are considered the most important
Syrian fruits, by using dummy variables through the time series of (1994 -
2010). The research showed that GAFTA had no significant impact on any of
the studied commodities through the transitional phase (1998-2004), while it
had a positive significant effect on both of the exports and imports of these
commodities after the full implementation stage (2005-2010). Significant
differences were found between the three stages (before- during- after) GAFTA
implementation. after implementation stage showed significant differences
comparing to the other stages, in which the exports and imports of both orange
and apple had increased in this stage comparing to the previous ones by
quantity and value.
The present investigation was carried out at the Agricultural Scientific
Research Center in Swieda to study the effect of deficit irrigation on the growth
of four apple seedlings rootstocks genotypes and to estimate their ability to
drought tolera
nce particularly in light of the lack of water sources and no rain.
Two irrigation levels: 100% (control) and 75% of water requirements were
applied. The shoot length, leaves number, leaves area, the distribution of the
roots in soil, the depth of irrigation water in the soil and the consumption of
water in each level were measured. Results showed that irrigation with 75% of
field capacity on studied genotypes caused reduction of shoots length, decline of
leaves number and area and the depth of root comparing with the control.
There were significant differences between studied genotypes in terms of vigor
where the genotypes C and S2 were superior than A and B.
This study was conducted in the spring of 1999 in Al-Souida Region of
Syria, to know the effect of flower pollination by honeybees on flower and fruitset
and on the crop productivity of three varieties of apple. The experiment was
repeated in the
spring of 2001 on the same varieties in addition to others like
Yellow sport, but the weather conditions (spring-frost) didn’t allow to obtain
results.
The study was performed in Barshin Research Station- General
Commission for Scientific Agriculture Research on the trees age of
13 in grafted with Golden Delicious Cultivar on three rootstocks
(seedless rootstock Malus domestica, vegetative strong
rootstock
MM109, and MM111 half strong rootstock) over the years
(2014.2015 ).The study focused on growth vigor (the stem
circumference above the grafted area ,crown size - the rate of
shoots length and productivity).
The objective of this study was to study the economic characteristics of non-irrigated
apples and grapes in Syria. The study depended on published and unpublished
data from Ministry of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform, during the period 2000 –
2014
. The data is related to the cultivated area, production costs and prices. Certain
economic indicators (net income, profitability of invested SP), as well as the most
important marketing indicators (marketing share, marketing margin, marketing
efficiency) were estimated, to clarify the progress in the marketing process of these
important crops in Syria, because the farmers are still suffered from increasing
production costs and decline in their share of the price that had been paid by end
consumers, in addition to their inability to sell their production.
