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EXPORT COMPETITIVENESS OF TURMERIC IN ANDHRA PRADESH

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Title EXPORT COMPETITIVENESS OF TURMERIC IN ANDHRA PRADESH
 
Creator SRAVANTHI KUMARI, B
 
Contributor VASUDEV, N
 
Subject exports, turmeric, marketing, productivity, economics, markets, sampling, manpower, breeding, imports
 
Description The present study entitled “Export Competitiveness of Turmeric in Andhra
Pradesh” was undertaken to analyse the export performance of turmeric with respect to
their domestic and international prices and direction of trade. The study also includes
the technical efficiency of turmeric farms both in Guntur and Nizamabad
districts,constraints faced by the farmers etcc. Both primary and secondary data was
collected. The data on exports were collected using secondary sources from various
published documents .
Stochastic frontier production function, Nominal protection coefficient, Effective
protection coefficient, Markov chain, Garret‟s ranking technique were used as
analytical tools.
In Nizamabad District farms, the estimate indicated that there is positive impact
of seed and human labour on turmeric production and negative impact on chemical
fertilizers,plant protection chemicals, irrigation and machine labour on turmeric
production .
In Guntur District farms, the estimate indicate that there is positive impact of
seed, chemical fertilizers, plant protection chemicals, irrigation and human labour on
turmeric production and negative impact on only machine labour on turmeric
production.
The technical efficiency of Nizamabad and Guntur districts farms was
calculated. The mean efficiency of Nizamabad district farms was found to be (88.15 per
cent) .The efficiency of the farms in Guntur district was found to be (99.88 per cent).
Comparing the individual parameters in the farms of Nizamabad district have
high coefficients for plant protection chemicals, human labour, sigma squared and
gamma, and the remaining parameters namely intercept, seed, chemical fertilizers,
irrigation and machine labour were high in the farms of Guntur district.
As per the formula NPC of the turmeric had been estimated. The estimated NPC
is 0.39 in 2008, which is considered to be highly competitive. Similarly from 2009
onwards due to rise in domestic prices the value of NPC is 0.4-0.7 which indicates the
competitiveness has declined.It can be concluded that ,the turmeric considered in the
study are competitive for exports.The results are on par with the study conducted by
Ravi and Reddy(1998) on comparative advantage of selected agricultural commodities.
The results are also in conformity with the studies conducted by Dahia (2001) on
competitiveness of different agricultural commodities using Nominal protection co-
efficients (NPCs).
The negative sign for Effective rate of protection implies that there is negative
value added at international prices during this year. This arises because input costs
exceed the output price. Since the phenomenon is being observed at one point of time,it
could be short term losses which get reflected as negative Effective rate of protection.
Bangladesh was one of the most loyal importers of Indian turmeric as reflected
by retention of 48.84 per cent Shares over the study period. The free trade agreements
under the Bay of Bengal Intiative for Multi- Sectoral Technical and Economic
Cooperation (BIMSTEC) and South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation
(SAARC) would have encouraged greater cooperation and trade between countries.
United Arab Emirates, United States of America, Iran, United Kingdom and others
retained export share of 28.54 per cent, 42.37 per cent, 30.71 per cent, 32.60 per cent
and 81 per cent respectively. United Arab Emirates lost 71.46 per cent of its export
shares to Japan, United States of America, Iran, United Kingdom and Bangladesh,
while it gained shares from Japan, United States of America, Iran and others. Japan was
found to be losing the status of a stable importer of Indian turmeric. United States of
America lost 57.63 percent of its export shares to United Arab Emirates and Japan,
United Kingdom and Bangladesh. Iran lost 69.29 per cent of its export shares to United
Arab Emirates, United States of America and others, while it gained shares from United
Arab Emirates, Japan, Bangladesh and others.
The farmers of Nizamabad district cultivating turmeric are mainly facing
with the constraint of lack of credit facility, followed by the other constraints
namely forced to sell due to immediate need of money, due to high labour prices,
presence of facilitative middlemen(commission agents), due to price fluctuations
observed during this year, low yields are observed due to bad weather conditions,
lack of stringent quality perceptions, inadequate facilities at the market for personal
stay respectively.
In Guntur district farmers those who are cultivating turmeric are mainly
faced with the constraints namely price fluctuations, high labour prices, lack of
awareness on benefits if exported, seasonal variations, transportation problems, lack
of stringent quality perceptions respectively.
 
Date 2016-06-23T09:03:46Z
2016-06-23T09:03:46Z
2012
 
Type Thesis
 
Identifier http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/67763
 
Language en
 
Relation D9132;
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher ACHARYA N.G. RANGA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY