Trends in Growth and Direction of Kokum Black Exports from India

An attempt was made to study the trends in export growth and direction of kokum black from India. Export data was used for last 15 years (2004-05 to 2018-19). Further, destination wise time series data on export was collected from annual publication of Agricultural and Processed Foods Export Development Authority, India (APEDA) and its website www.apeda.com [1] and website of Directorate General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics was obtained. The average export quantity of kokum black for last fifteen years was 43983 MTs and export earnings realized at constant prices were Rs.78.65 lakhs. Oman registered a positive and significant growth. It is concluded that, kokum black export has decreasing trend for both in terms of quantity (-2.26%) as well as real price (0.71%). USA was relatively loyal and stable importers of Indian kokum black. However, UK and Australia were found to be most unstable importers.