ANALYZING THE COMPETITIVENESS OF THE EGYPTIAN EXPORTS OF THE MOST IMPORTANT MEDICINAL AND AROMATIC PLANTS

doi:10.21608/fjard.2015.193013

ANALYZING THE COMPETITIVENESS OF THE EGYPTIAN EXPORTS OF THE MOST IMPORTANT MEDICINAL AND AROMATIC PLANTS

Document Type : Research articles.

10.21608/fjard.2015.193013

Abstract

Despite of the importance of the medicinal and aromatic plants and the
increasing of its global demand which due to its several uses, and the comparative
advantage of Egypt in producing it, the global trend towards safe food and medicine
has led to increase the competition and that made a lack of exporting the medicinal
and aromatic plants, So, the study aimed to analyze the competitiveness of Egyptian
exports of the most important medicinal and aromatic plants, through several subgoals.
The study showed that the amount of exports of fennel and caraway represent
63,86% of the total amount of Egypt's exports of medicinal and aromatic plants, and
in term of value, the same crops represent 83,8% of the total exports value of
medicinal and aromatic plants.
By studying the distribution and the geographic concentration of the most
important Egypt's exports of medicinal and aromatic plants, it showed that the GiniHirschman coefficient's value was over than 0,40, it means that the exports are
concentrated in certain countries, and studied the determinants of developing the
exports of the most important of Egypt's exports of medicinal and aromatic plants by
using the gravity model of trade.

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