Shanlax International Journal of Management
  • Year: 2023
  • Volume: 10
  • Issue: 3

The Effect of COVID-19 on India’s Spice Exports

1Ph.D., Scholar, Department of International Business, Alagappa University, Karaikudi, Tamil Nadu, India, Email ID: vilasinimurugesan98@gmail.com

2Assistant Professor, Department of International Business, Alagappa University, Karaikudi, Tamil Nadu, India, Email ID: gsgopalsamy@gamil.com

Online Published on 01 May, 2023.

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic shows an irreversible change in the world. Developing nations like India, the effect is even more significant. Spice exports are one of the important sectors to generate foreign revenue to the country. This paper investigated the impact of COVID-19 on spice exports in India. This research is based on secondary data from fiscal year 2018-19 to 2020-21. To analyse conditional volatility of a time series data, a GARCH model was applied. The findings suggest that the COVID–19 pandemic has an significant effect on spices exports in India.

Keywords

COVID -19, Pandemic, Spices Export, Volatility, Stationarity