Technical and economic efficiency of using economic resources in wheat production in Sohag governorate, Egypt

The wheat crop is considered one of the food grain crops of strategic importance in Egyptian  agriculture, The study aimed to estimate the technical efficiency and economic efficiency, determine the amount of resources achieved for economic efficiency used in growing the wheat crop, and study the difference between the average quantities of the actual quantities of resources used and the optimal quantities achieved for economic efficiency, The study concluded for the following results:1- By estimating the indicators of distributive and economic efficiency, it became clear that there was superiority in the first possessory category compared to the second and third categories, as the average distributive and economic efficiency in that category reached about 93%, 89%, while the average reached about 82%, 78% for the second category, and about 84% is 82% for the category, Third in order, This may be due to not overusing resources, which reduces costs and increases distributional and economic efficiency, 2- By comparing the average amounts of resources used to produce the wheat crop in the study sample in Sohag governorate and its counterpart achieving (optimum) economic efficiency, it became clear that both seeds, chemical fertilizers, mechanical labor, human labor, and pesticides must be reduced by an estimated rate of about 8.3%, 27.6%, 5.3%, 8.3%, 5% respectively. 3- It was also shown that the amount of savings in resources used in producing the wheat crop at the total level of the study sample in Sohag governorate amounted to about 8.3 kilograms per acre for seeds, and for chemical fertilizer about 51,7 effective units per acre, and with regard to the number of hours of automated work, the amount of savings amounted to about 0.8 of an hour/acre, human labor is about 2 men per acre, and pesticides are 0.1 of a liter per acre, with values reaching about 165.1, 517.2, 156, 242.4, and 10 for each of them, respectively.