The growth in exports, economics of production and global competitiveness
of groundnut has been reported over the period of 20 years (1984-85 to
2004-05) in Karnataka by collecting data from various published sources.
Techniques used for the analysis are growth functions, tabular function,
nominal protection coefficient and domestic resource cost. The analysis
of export trends of groundnut from 1985-86 to 2004-05 has shown that
quantity of groundnut export has grown annually at a compound growth
rate of 9.52 per cent, whereas the value of groundnut exported has grown
at a much higher rate of 13.13 per cent. Structural changes in costs are due
to changes in quantity and quality of inputs associated with the
technological process and also due to their prices. Groundnut has shown
competitive disadvantage during the pre-WTO period, as values of NPC
and DRC are more than one. But, during the post-WTO period, the
competitiveness has increased as is evident from the NPC and DRC values
which turned out be less than one. The study has suggested to exploit the
competitiveness of Karnataka in groundnut and other oilseed crops