TITLE:
India’s Horticultural Export Markets: Growth Rates, Elasticities, Global Supply Chains, and Policies
AUTHORS:
M. B. Dastagiri
KEYWORDS:
Export Markets, Growth Rates, Elasticities, Global Supply Chains, Policies
JOURNAL NAME:
Modern Economy,
Vol.8 No.7,
July
12,
2017
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.