Export Competitiveness of Important Cereals in India

India occupied second place in production of rice, wheat and other cereals in the world. Export of cereals stood at 10064 USD Millions. Rice (including Basmathi and non Basmathi) occupied the major share in India’s total cereals export with 77.6 per cent in terms of quantity and 87.6 per cent in terms of value of exports during the year 2020-21.It is important to know the export competitiveness of Indian cereals as it leads to countries economic growth. The present study was taken-up to study the export competitiveness of important cereals from India. Secondary data on area, production and productivity, export quantity, domestic prices and border prices or (reference price) of cereals from India were collected from FAO, agricultural prices in India year books and AGMARK for the period of 21 years i.e., from 2000-01 to 2020-21. Compound Growth Rates, Cuddy Della Valle Index and Nominal Protection Coefficient were used for the study. The results revealed that among the selected crops maize showed better performance in area, production and Productivity during the study period. Except wheat all the other cereals under study showed positive growth rate in quantity exported in the first period and also during overall period. The instability was less in the area, production and productivity and high in the quantity of the commodity exported. All the selected cereals had moderate export competitiveness during the first period and except rice other cereals became noncompetitive during second period.