Indian Seafood Exports: Issues of Instability, Commodity ...

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cxpon of sealhod assume immense Importance in the ccanamic scenarto of India and
hence the present stud> was conducted wlth the follou~ng ohjectivcs: (1) 7'0 compute
concelllralion measures such as commodity concentrdtlon and geographic concentration
coefficients (br lndian seafood exports. (2) lo estimate the ~nstability indices
for seafood exports from India and (3) '1 o determine the s~gnifica~~t factors that aflbct
the instability in xafood exports from lndla
Tlic paper is arranged as fbllows Sectlo11 I1 d~scusses the structure and pattern of
firlieries dcvelop~nent In lndia durlng the past four decndes The tli~rd rectlon deal,
\*1t11 data and transformation prc~cedl~rcs Sect~on IV descrthcs the theoretical and
computational framework. Sectlon V prcscnts the resullr and thc final sectloll gives a
summary of findings and d~scusses pollcy alternat~ves.
With an annual fish production of 6 ~n~lll~on cnctrlc tonnes India occupies the
fourth position in fish production and second III aquaculture productio~i globally The
annual domestlc per capita fish availability is 9 kilograms and seafoud cnpurt
earnlngs of lndia is consistently over K\ 6,000 crorc* a ycar I:ish cuntrabuter 1.4 per
ccnt of gross domest~c prr,doct (Gl)P) i~nd 4 5 per ccnt ofthe agr~cult~lral 601' 'I ill
the close of 1960 the ehpOIi ot Illdlan .;eak,od products iilalnly c