1Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur [Himachal Pradesh]
2Research Scholar, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur [Himachal Pradesh]
Agriculture has been a way of life and continues to be one of the most important livelihoods of the people in India. Agriculture has been playing the role of a catalyst for our economy as it generates employment, national income, foreign exchange, food for people etc. This paper analyses the performance of agricultural exports of India during the period 1991–92 to 2013–14. The paper concludes that exports of principal agricultural commodities have shown variations over the years. The favorable condition in terms of export growth of agricultural commodities lies in the commodities having high growth rate and low instability. Spices, rice, meat and preparations and fruits and vegetables are the commodities which fall in the category of high growth and low instability in terms of earnings, such commodities are termed as key performers. Coffee, tea, oil cakes, tobacco, cashew and kernals, marine products and miscellaneous products are the commodities which fall in the category of low growth. The commodities with low growth and high instability need to be checked in order to transform such commodities in to key performing commodities.
Agriculture, Compounded Annual Growth Rate, Instability
