Growth of marine exports: -

Progress of exports is studied in terms annual growth rates for quantities, values and unit values to understand overall picture of exports (See Table 3). The growth of quantities exported was the highest during the decade 1971 to 80 (10.65%) with overall growth rate of 4.67% from 1950-51 to 1992-93. The overall growth rate of export values was much higher (15.82%) than that of the quantities during the same period due to higher prices realised every year. The highest growth rate for values was during the decade 1961-70 (31.34%). The overall growth rate was the highest for unit value realisation (16.28%) among the three parameters. The rise in prices was also the highest (31.71%) during the decade 1961-70. All the growth rates showed that the exports in marine fishery done exceedingly well both in terms of quantity and value of exports.

Relative growth rates of marine fishery and other items of agricultural exports are also presented to know the differences over the period from 1980-81 to 1992-93 (See Table 4). In respect of quantity, the growth rate of fish and its preparation was 8.53%, next to oilcakes, which had the highest growth rate of 19.72%. In respect of value, the fish was at the third position with 16.57% rate, first being oilcakes (23.09%) and second Tobacco (23.00%). In respect of unit value or price, fish was at sixth position with growth rate of 7.41%. This showed that fish exports are competing with other agricultural items in the foreign trade.

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