MEASUREMENT OF COMPETITIVENESS OF AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SECTOR IN TURKEY


The agricultural sector is not only important in terms of the nutrition of the countries but also has a strategic feature in terms of being subject to foreign trade. In this respect, the agricultural sector is an essential part of international relations. Global trade continues to liberalize under the influence of WTO policies at global level. The total global export volume, which was 2 trillion $ in 1980, exceeded 17.7 trillion $ at the end of 2017. In the same time, the export volume in Turkey is increased 36.1 billion $ to 167.9 billion $ between the in period of 2002-2018, while during the same period, exports of agricultural products increased from 4.1 billion $ to 18.5 billion $ by increasing as 356.5%. The aim of this study is to measure the competitiveness of the intra-industry trade, foreign trade of agriculture and food sector of Turkey for the period of 1990-2018. According to the results of the analysis, while the average value of intra-industry trade in the total trade of agricultural products in the 28-year period was 0.92, this value was determined as 0.72 in food items. Turkey is a country with high intra-industry trade advantage in agricultural and food products and it has a potential for the future. However, to maintain the competitive advantage and increasing competitiveness; reducing costs, increasing branding through local and geographical indicators, struggling with the informal economy, market diversification in foreign trade, producing high value-added products and investing to digital agriculture will have an important role


Keywords


Competition, Intra-Industry Trade, Agriculture and Food, Grubel-Lloyd Index

Author : Ali BERK
Number of pages: 1277-1287
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.29228/TurkishStudies.23418
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Turkish Studies-Social Sciences
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