Trends in Agricultural Exports of India

The production of agricultural sector has been increasing after green revolution, hence, the agriculture sector made India as the seventh largest agriculture product exporter. Basmathi Rice and Non-Basmathi Rice, Meat, Goundnut, Milk, Sugar Cane and Wheat are the major crops yielding and are the highest outputs and India's exports. The agricultural sector has been playing a key role in the composition of Indian exports but, unfortunately the share of Indian agriculture exports have been slowly declining in recent years. The changing scenario of Global agricultural trade in the post liberalization era is as much challenging for India. Thus India could not gain much from trade liberalization even though the increasing rate of economic integration of the Indian economy with global processes. With this background, the present paper is confined to study the trends in Agriculture-Export of India in terms of export quantity, export growth rate, export per cent in GDP and the impact of exports on the growth of GDP after the post liberalization period (1990-91 to 2019-20) i.e., thirty years in three sub decades in a comparative analysis.