An Economic Analysis of Horticultural Production and Trade in India
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An Economic Analysis of Horticultural Production and Trade in India
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SAID IDRIS
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Alka Singh
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productivity, exports, horticulture, fruits, biological development, economics, area, markets, yields, crops
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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. ii भारत |
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2016-03-18T17:52:11Z
2016-03-18T17:52:11Z 2013 |
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Thesis
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http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/65269
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en_US
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application/pdf
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IARI, DIVISION OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS INDIAN AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE NEW DELHI
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