THE IMPACT OF TECHNOLOGY TO IMPROVEMENT SOIL ON THE PRODUCTIVITY OF MAIZE CROP IN GHARBIA GOVERNORATE

Improvement of soil is the essential foundation for the implementation of state policy towards vertical expansion because of its vital importance in addressing the problems of soil and bring it to marginal productivity and because of the major problems of land cultivated and reflected on the national economy from the effects of large has taken care of the Ministry of Agriculture. The main research problem in the deterioration of chemical and physical properties of agricultural land of Egypt and that resulted from the agricultural policies pursued by the state during the past period, as well as appropriating large tracts of agricultural land to be used in non-agricultural purposes. The research aims to measure the economic effects of technology to improve soil and their impact on yield production of maize at the level of province of West through the study of the current status of land improvement in Gharbia Governorate during the period (2000-2008), distributed on governorate districts, and then estimate the standard functions of production farm to harvest maize Sham Western Province. The research was based on the data field by selecting a random sample of the most important agricultural districts performing the operations of improvement in Gharbia Governorate Data was collected from the respondents using the questionnaire designated for that purpose, in addition to secondary data published and unpublished, issued by the Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation and the Public Authority to the Executive for projects implementation land. Production functions were estimated for the maize crop in the western province through research random sample was chosen from among maize growers in the agricultural year (2007-2008) by 200 farmers had been relocated to a central Tanta and Mahala as the largest districts in which it was an improvement processes. In the light of the findings of the study results, it can display the most important recommendations drawn from the results of the study which could benefit agricultural policy makers in developing policies, which include recommendations on the need to pay due care to improve the soil and circulated to the level of all the Western Districts, and awareness of their own all the media available. The need to provide equipment and machinery necessary to conduct such operations in the agricultural societies of its village centers. The need for spreading awareness among farmers of the importance and the need for improvements in the rapidly changing global economic and Alintaizp and provide a minimum of self-sufficiency of crops. Encourage investment in soil improvement through the establishment of some small projects to ensure that more job oppor-tunities and the advancement of the various operations improvement.