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The Impacts of Lesser Developed Countries on Southern Region Agricultural Exports

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2016

Mary A. Marchant  and
Fred J. Ruppel
Mary A. Marchant
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics at the University of Kentucky
Fred J. Ruppel
Affiliation:
Commodity Economics Division, ERS, USDA
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Abstract

Lesser developed countries (LDCs) serve as both customers and competitors for agricultural commodities produced in the Southern region of the United States. This paper focuses on the impacts of LDCs on exports of the major agricultural commodities produced in the South (cotton, rice, tobacco, poultry, and, to a lesser extent, citrus and peanuts). First the importance of LDCs as export markets for Southern commodities is explored. Then the role LDCs play as producers and exporters of these commodities is considered. Finally, these separate roles are combined into an index of LDC competitiveness with Southern agricultural commodities. Data analysis shows that Southern agricultural interests truly are divided over the role LDCs play in Southern agriculture, where poultry and rice rank highest, and peanuts lowest, in terms of a LDC markets/competition index. Thus, it is not surprising that calls for protectionism (e.g., the Bumpers' Amendment) should arise from the South.

Type
Trade Liberalization and International Agricultural Development
Information
Agricultural and Resource Economics Review , Volume 22 , Issue 1 , April 1993 , pp. 71 - 87
Copyright
Copyright © 1993 Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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