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dc.contributor.authorDholakia R.H.
dc.date.accessioned2022-02-11T10:14:43Z-
dc.date.available2022-02-11T10:14:43Z-
dc.date.issued2003
dc.identifier.citationDholakia, R. H. (2003). Exports of Agri-Products from Gujarat: Problems and Prospects. Vikalpa, 28(4). https://doi.org/10.1177/0256090920030404
dc.identifier.issn2560909
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.doi.org/10.1177/0256090920030404
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11718/25288-
dc.description.abstractThis paper follows a narrow definition of agri-products that include products of agriculture, horticulture, floriculture, animal husbandry, and poultry. Like most other states in India, Gujarat has also prepared several reports and policy papers assessing the potential for agro-processing, identifying constraints in the development and exports of agri-products, suggesting or announcing several important policy measures for removing physical and financial infrastructural bottlenecks, and promoting R&D activities in the sector. However, these exercises lack realistic assessment of the potential, important features of agri-exports from the state, and Gujarat's comparative advantage over the rest of the country in specific product categories. This paper addresses these aspects. A recent survey of exports originating from Gujarat conducted by the Gujarat Industrial Technical Consultancy Organization (GITCO) estimated that, during the year 2000�, Gujarat contributed Rs 495 billion (or 20.8%) out of the total national exports of Rs 2,385 billion. However, excluding gems and jewellery and petroleum products, Gujarat's share in the national exports is only 9.2 per cent. Compared to this overall proportion, Gujarat's share in national exports in commodities like groundnut, oil-meals, castor oil, poultry, dairy products, spices, sesame and niger seeds, and processed food, fruits, and vegetables is much higher indicating Gujarat's revealed comparative advantage in these product categories. Some important features of the exports activity in Gujarat are: Only 20 per cent are pure traders in the export business. Only a quarter of the units have 慹xport house' or upward status for special benefits. More than 40 per cent of the exporting units have come up after 1991�. Two-thirds of the exporters belong to small and medium enterprises. Export intensity of Gujarat's agricultural sector is about 12 per cent. Agri-exports represent excess supply and hence highly volatile and fluctuating activity over time. Agri-exports are price elastic. Agri-exports would be highly responsive to exchange rate depreciation. In recent years, Gujarat's agriculture shows considerable dynamic characteristics in contrast to the gloomy official income estimates in the sector. Nineteen out of 30 crops show significant positive time trend in area while five crops show significant negative trend. The cropping pattern in Gujarat has been shifting away from the low value traditional crops to high value commercial crops with business and export potential. A detailed consideration of yield rates of different crops in the state and other states over the past three decades indicates a realistic potential of 5 per cent per annum growth rate for agriculture in Gujarat over the next eight to ten years.In order to ensure exclusive and regular supply to the export market, quality standards have to be according to the foreign destination and not the domestic market. This calls for large-scale production, assured input supplies, good logistics, infrastructural facilities, R&D activities, and technological upgradation. This involves giving priority to investments in several infrastructural facilities and agricultural R&D besides perfecting agricultural land market and encouraging contract farming in the state. � 2003, � 2003 SAGE Publications.
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherSAGE Publications Ltd
dc.relation.ispartofVikalpa
dc.subjectAgri-business
dc.subjectAgricultural Growth
dc.subjectComparative Advantage
dc.subjectExports
dc.subjectGujarat Economy
dc.titleExports of Agri-Products from Gujarat: Problems and Prospects
dc.typeArticle
dc.rights.licenseCC BY-NC, CC BY
dc.contributor.affiliationEconomics Area of Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India
dc.contributor.institutionauthorDholakia, R.H., Economics Area of Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India
dc.description.scopusid24316439800
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/0256090920030404
dc.identifier.endpage52
dc.identifier.startpage41
dc.identifier.issue4
dc.identifier.volume28
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