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Chapter One ECONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS OF THE AGRICULTURE Prepare: Prof: Mohamed Sayed Shehata  1-1: Seasonality of agricultural production Agricultural goods can be produced only during specific period in a year. There are summer and winter crops. all the crops canno...

Chapter One ECONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS OF THE AGRICULTURE Prepare: Prof: Mohamed Sayed Shehata  1-1: Seasonality of agricultural production Agricultural goods can be produced only during specific period in a year. There are summer and winter crops. all the crops cannot be grown all over the year. ❖Consumer and industrial goods are produced throughout the year.  Seasonality of agricultural production: ❑The seasonality of agricultural production is due to several facts: agricultural production depends: ✓ on climate conditions. ✓Temperature. ✓winds. ✓Humidity. ✓biological conditions. ❑which leads to seasonality of production.  Seasonality of agricultural production: ❑Seasonality of agricultural production means: that the various agricultural operations that take place on the crop from the beginning of its cultivation until its harvest take place in specific seasons. Agricultural seasonality is mainly caused due to two reasons: A. Agriculture is a biological industry : depends on biological elements (soil, insects, …,etc). B. Agriculture depends mainly on physical conditions (weather, Temperature., etc). The seasonality of agricultural production has two effect: 1- internal effects 2- external effects:  6.1.1 Internal effects: These effects are represented 1-in the seasonality of farm work. 2- seasonality of farm incomes. 1- seasonality of farm work: the distribution of farm work on the production processes of any plant or animal crops differs according to these plants and the production methods used in their production, the following months May - June - July - September - October – considered to be the peak months In agricultural work, where the demand for agricultural labor intensifies at that time and not during other months of the year. The seasonality of farm work results in the spread of seasonal unemployment. 2- seasonality of agricultural incomes it means that the farmer does not receive his income from the production process regularly during the months of the year, but rather during the seasons of harvesting agricultural products. ✓Wheat, cotton and rice crops receive their income once a year, while there is a relative time regularity in the income from some Animal products such as dairy, eggs, poultry and fish.  6.1.2 External Effects: These effects are represented in 1-the seasonality of some agricultural industries. 2-the problem of the temporal distribution of agricultural production. 1- the seasonality of some agricultural industries that depend on their production in agricultural raw materials, such as the manufacture of cotton ginning and cane sugar, they lead to problems such as problems caused by seasonality of production in the agricultural sector. The seasonality of agricultural industries results in the spread of seasonal unemployment  2-problem of temporal distribution of agricultural production it is represented in how this production is distributed among the months of the year in exchange for production in a specific month, and thus the need arises for a storage process for this crop The time distribution of agricultural production depends on two elements: the first is prices, which are the seasonal agricultural basis for storage, and the second is the return on investment. It,s meaning that the price after storage is added to its