Competitive performance of agricultural commodities in world agricultural market: A revealed symmetric comparative advantage approach

This paper seeks to quantify the extent to which India has a comparative advantage in export of major 35 agricultural commodities. It is based on secondary data for the period 2007-2016. The result of study revealed that the values of RSCA for rice were negative during in all the years and more or less stable (-0.9). The negative RSCA indicated that comparative disadvantage in India’s rice exports. India had enjoyed a revealed symmetrical comparative advantage in dried lentil, dried chickpea, and groundnut exports but had depicted a declining after 2011. In guargum, groundnut, and walnut more or less stable RSCA observed during the entire period. India had comparative advantage in fresh grapes exports to world has been increasing from 2010 to 2013 but thereafter started to decline and reached negative in 2016 (-0.07). India had comparative disadvantage in export of fresh fruits citrus except the year 2011 (0.26).