India’s Horticultural Export Markets: Growth Rates, Elasticities, Global Supply Chains, and Policies - Modern Economy

ME > Vol.8 No.7, July 2017

India’s Horticultural Export Markets: Growth Rates, Elasticities, Global Supply Chains, and Policies ()

HTML XML

Download as PDF (Size: 519KB) PP. 847-864

DOI: 10.4236/me.2017.87059 3,218 Downloads 4,942 Views Citations

Author(s)

M. B. Dastagiri

Affiliation(s)

National Academy of Agricultural Research Management, Hyderabad, India.

ABSTRACT

Digital Economy, Ecommerce and fortune economy depend on export market information. Globally, horticulture industry is one of the noteworthy sectors. India is major fruit and vegetable basket of the world. This study estimates exports, price growth rates, elasticity’s, identifies major destinations and trace global supply chains for horticultural commodities. The study period is 1990-1991 to 2012-2013. Compound annual growth rates, elasticities and instability index are the methodological tools employed. All fruits’, vegetables’ and flowers’ elasticities are shown to be elastic excluding walnut & mushrooms. Tea’s & Coffee’s elasticities are elastic. The supply chain channels to Europe, UK, US and Middle East highly developed and no middlemen involved. In case of South Asia, Africa and South East Asia, lengthy and middlemen involved. Global supply chain model must be connecting directly producers with exporters and importers or consumers of importing countries. This is possible digitalization of data and single window processing.

KEYWORDS

Export Markets, Growth Rates, Elasticities, Global Supply Chains, Policies

Share and Cite:

Dastagiri, M. (2017) India’s Horticultural Export Markets: Growth Rates, Elasticities, Global Supply Chains, and Policies. Modern Economy, 8, 847-864. doi: 10.4236/me.2017.87059.

Journals Menu

Follow SCIRP

	+1 323-425-8868
	customer@scirp.org
	+86 18163351462(WhatsApp)
	1655362766

	Paper Publishing WeChat

Journals Menu

Home

About SCIRP

Service

Policies