Impact of trade liberalization on exports of cotton from India
Student name: Ms Simarpreet Kaur
Guide: Dr Sushmita Chatterjee
Year of completion: 2012
Host Organisation: The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)
Abstract: Cotton has a significant contribution in India’s agricultural and industrial economy. It has
emerged as a big support of Indian exports in the recent past. The present study is an attempt to
analyse the impact of trade liberalisation on exports of cotton from India through an empirical
and conceptual framework. The study estimates the export demand function for Indian cotton
incorporating the liberalisation variable among other variables to examine the influence of trade
liberalisation on cotton exports from India during the reference period. The study also highlights
the prospects and strategies for liberalisaiton of trade in Indian agricultural commodities
especially cotton develped from a set of learnings from the results and analysis of the study. The
period of the study is 1975-2009. The technique of estimation used is time series data analysis.
Keywords: cotton, exports, India, trade, liberalisation, production, consumption, government
policy, world markets
