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An Economic Analysis of Horticultural Production and Trade in India

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Title An Economic Analysis of Horticultural Production and Trade in India
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Creator SAID IDRIS
 
Contributor Alka Singh
 
Subject productivity, exports, horticulture, fruits, biological development, economics, area, markets, yields, crops
 
Description The study aimed to analyze changing growth pattern and composition of India’s
horticultural production and trade, trade competitiveness, and sanitary & phyto-sanitary issues
impacting their exports. The compound annual growth rates and Cuddy-Della Valle index were
used to examine the trend and instability in area, production, productivity and exports of
horticultural commodities. Revealed Comparative Advantage and Comparative Export
Performance indices were estimated to measure trade competitiveness of major horticultural
commodities against major competitors. The results revealed that the highest production growth
was observed in flowers followed by spices, vegetables, fruits and plantation crops during the
study period (1991-92 to 2010-11). The results further showed that banana, citrus, eggplant,
tomato, potato, cashewnut and arecanut continued to register positive growth in area expansion
and productivity during the period. The association between yield growth and instability in yield
in the 2000 decade over the nineties decade showed that tomato, onion, eggplant and cashew nut
experienced an increase in yield growth accompanied by decrease in yield instability. Despite
being one of the largest producers of fruits and vegetables in the world, India’s share in world
exports is relatively insignificant. The horticultural products account for one third of the total
value of agricultural exports. Of these, export of spices leads all horticultural commodities
followed by cashew and processed fruits and vegetables. Export of processed fruits and vegetables
is emerging impressively and has received priority attention too. The commodity-wise analysis
showed that India’s major importing partners for most the horticultural produce are neighbouring
countries. Further, the unit price realization from horticultural exports to these countries have
been found generally much lower as compared to the European countries, USA and Japan. The
empirical findings further suggest that for fresh grapes, India has comparative advantage in Asia
market, whereas, the country has relatively high comparative advantage in mango fresh or dried
over China, but doesn’t enjoy comparative advantage over Pakistan in the same market. In case of
cashewnut, one of the major export products, Tanzania and Vietnam consistently enjoyed a
comparative advantage over India in EU market. Similarly, in case of onions fresh or chilled, India
showed comparative advantage over Turkey in the Gulf market. The study also indicated
considerable impact of food safety standards stipulated by the USA and EU on India’s
horticultural exports. Spices, fresh and processed fruits and vegetables faced higher number of
rejections of export consignments and notifications issued, mainly on account of having filth,
pesticide residues, microbial contamination and non compliance of other mandatory technical
parameters. The study concludes that in order to become a global leader in production and exports,
the country needs technological and institutional interventions aiming to raise productivity, quality
and food safety standards.
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Date 2016-03-18T17:52:11Z
2016-03-18T17:52:11Z
2013
 
Type Thesis
 
Identifier http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/65269
 
Language en_US
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher IARI, DIVISION OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS INDIAN AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE NEW DELHI