A Study on Export Scenario of Vegetables from India: An Economic Analysis

Abstract:

India is the second largest producer of vegetables, next to China. India’s share is 11.95 per cent of total global production with

204.61 million tonnes from area of 11.28 million hectares. The share of vegetables export in India’s agriculture and related products

is 3.30 per cent and share in export of horticultural products is 16.21 per cent respectively during 2021-22. The present study

was carried out with a view to analyze the export scenario of vegetables in India. The data were collected and analyzed for a

period of twenty years (2001-02 to 2020-21). The compound annual growth rate in export of vegetables was worked out by fitting

the exponential function. During the overall period of twenty years, both exported quantity and value of vegetables from India

registered a positive trend and the compound annual growth rate was 6.66 and 14.40 per cent for exported quantity and value

respectively. Under different component of vegetables highest compound annual growth rate in exported quantity was registered

in other fresh vegetables category (10.83 per cent per annum) and in exported value it was vegetable seeds (18.85 per cent per

annum). The largest quantity is exported in the form of onions (56.86 per cent) followed by other fresh vegetables (25.14 per cent),

processed vegetables (10.47 per cent), cucumber and gherkins (7.24 per cent) and vegetable seeds (0.28 per cent). The share of

vegetable exports in total vegetable production was ranging from 1.25 to 2.14 per cent during last one decade. In terms of value

Bangladesh was the major importing country for Indian onions, UAE for other fresh vegetables, USA for cucumber & gherkins

and processed vegetables and Netherlands for vegetable seeds. Awareness to farmers regarding export specifications and quality

vegetable production, increase in infrastructural facilities related to export of vegetables, improved post-harvest technologies,

promotion of need based processed products for export, identification of potential and new emerging markets, strict quality control

and proper policies related to export of vegetables may contribute to increased foreign trade of India.

The exported quantity and value of vegetables shows increasing trend with minor fluctuations during the study period (2001-02 to 2020-21).
The compound annual growth rate in export of vegetables was 6.66 and 14.40 per cent for exported quantity and value respectively during the study period.