An econometric economical study for animal protein sources in Egypt

The study aimed to identify the current status of production and national consumption of animal protein sources, per capita , food gap and the proportion of self-sufficiency of animal protein sources, and study the factors affecting the national consumption of animal protein sources, as well as statistical estimation of individual demand relations, and study the structure consumer expenditure of animal protein sources according to expenditure categories and estimation of animal protein expenditure in urban and rural areas of Egypt. The study reached the following conclusions:
 1.  Studying the factors that affect the national consumption of animal protein sources, it was found that the most important factors are the real retail price of poultry meat, the real retail price of fish, the average real retail price of eggs, the real gross national income and the population.
2.  The study of the relationship of individual demand for animal protein sources revealed that for the average per capita red meat is influenced by both the real retail price of poultry meat and the time element, and for the average per capita poultry meat, the most important factors are the total production of poultry meat, and the real retail price The main explanatory factors affecting the average per capita fish are the real retail price of red meat, the real retail price of eggs and time, and the most important explanatory factors affecting the average per capita milk is the total production of milk, and the real retail price of milk and its products, and individual real income.
 3.  It was found that meat is considered a necessary commodity in the urban and rural areas of the Republic. Those who attended the countryside at all spending levels, and that the demand for them is inelastic because of the small value of the elasticity coefficient of expenditure than the correct one, except for the second expenditure category in the urban and rural areas of the Republic, the demand for fish has a flexible demand. Expenditure levels except the second category in the countryside.
The study recommends the need to expand the production of animal protein sources to meet the nutritional needs of these important sources, and reduce the food gap and raise the proportion of self-sufficiency from those sources.