Export Competitiveness of Mango in India
K. Muthulakshmi *
Department of Agricultural Economics, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, India.
M. Thilagavathi
Department of Agricultural Economics, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, India.
K. M. Shivakumar
Department of Agricultural Economics, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, India.
M. R. Duraisamy
Department of Physical Sciences and Information Technology, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, India.
M. Kavino
Department of Fruit Science, Horticulture College and Research Institute, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, India.
M. Uma Gowri
Department of Agricultural Economics, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, India.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
India is one of the leading producers of mango in the world, contributing more than half of the global mango supply. India exported 27,872.77 MT of mangoes in 2021–2022. Due to the Sanitary and Phyto Sanitary issues, India's export share in recent years was insignificant. Hence, this study focussed on estimating the export competitiveness of mango from the year 2006 to 2020 for India and major exporting countries. The study analysed the time series data of mango and total agricultural commodity export for India and major competitive countries at world level, which have arrived from Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority and UN Comtrade. This have been resulted in positive value where Thailand, Pakistan and Brazil had Revealed Comparative Advantages values greater than one throughout the period. It indicated that, these countries had comparative advantages of mangoes. The RCA value of India was below one. However, by following Good Agricultural practices (GAPs), Indian mangoes might still find a market on a worldwide scale.
Keywords: Mango, export, competitiveness, revealed comparative advantages