AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF PRODUCTION AND EXPORT OF MANGOES FROM INDIA

Abstract

India is the second largest producer of fruits in the world after China followed by Brazil. A large variety of fruits are grown in India. Mango is most widely grown fruit crop in India with a share of 34.71 percent in area and 22.41 percent share in production. An attempt has been made in this paper to analyse the production and export of mangoes from India. It has been found from the study that India holds the first rank in area and production of mangoes in the world with 41.25 percent share in global area under mango cultivation and 40.38 percent share in global production of mangoes. The area, production and productivity of mango in India displayed compound annual growth rate of 4.45 percent, 5.55 percent and 1.05 percent between 20001-02 and 2017- 18respectfully. Furthermore, it is found from the study that total quantity of mango exported displayed negative compound annual growth rate of 2.42 percent while as total value of mango exported recorded remarkable compound annual growth rate of 7.63 percent between 2012-13 and 2017-18. The major export market for Indian mangoes is U.A.E with percentage share of 58.71 to total export value followed by U.K. (9.45 percent) and Saudi Arabia (5.09 percent).