Export opportunities and competitiveness of vegetable crops in Gujarat Pal Vivek, Devi Ganga, Jadav K. S., Zala Y C Department of Agricultural Economics, B A College of Agriculture, Anand Agricultural University, Anand-388110, Gujarat (India) Online published on 23 October, 2017. Summary The vegetable crops are priority in Agriculture by virtue of its vast potential in improving the Socio-economic conditions of the farmers due to its production potentiality in a short period. In this study tabular analysis and Nominal Protection Coefficient measures has been used to measure the export potentiality and competitiveness of different vegetable crops in Gujarat. Greater potentiality of vegetable export was found due to its increasing trend of production and productivity. Potato crop was found highest area, production as well as productivity among all other vegetables in the state. The countries like Russia, Brunei, Mauritius, Vietnam, Sri Lanka and UAE were found highly competitive countries for export of potato. The export of different vegetables i.e. cabbage, potato, tomato and onion was found competitive to other countries and among these four major crops, cabbage was found to be highest export competitive crop. Singapore, Indonesia and Qatar were found to be highest export competitive countries for cabbage, onion and tomato, respectively. Therefore, cabbage crop needs special attention for promotion of export from Gujarat. Top |