Agriculture Reference
In-Depth Information
FIGURE 3.1
Values of cereal imports as a percentage of foreign currency reserves in
India, 1965-2001
Value (percent)
300
275
250
225
200
175
150
125
100
75
50
25
0
1962
1965
1968
1971 1974
1977
1980
1983 1986
1989
1992
1995 1998 2001
TABLE 3.3
Capacity to participate in international markets, 1961-2002
Cereal imports as
Cereal
Foreign exchange
percentage of
Capacity to
imports value
reserves
a
foreign exchange
import index
b
Period
(US$ million)
(US$ million)
reserves
(1995 = 100)
1961-63
369
313
124.25
—
1964-66
698
312
223.81
—
1967-69
610
514
130.44
—
1970-72
224
654
33.03
22.81
1973-75
949
679
133.97
23.74
1976-78
557
4,435
19.68
30.14
1979-81
140
5,513
2.92
31.84
1982-84
491
4,297
11.61
38.36
1985-87
39
5,532
0.70
46.70
1988-90
240
2,819
7.01
58.36
1991-93
120
6,283
2.06
75.34
1994-96
40
18,865
0.20
98.68
1997-99
255
27,758
0.94
128.46
2000-2002
4
41,258
0.01
171.08
SOURCE
: Authors' calculations based on data from World Bank (2003) and FAOSTAT (2004).
NOTE
: — indicates not available.
a
Excludes special drawing rights, gold, and International Monetary Fund funds.
b
Current price value of exports of goods and services deflated by the import price index.
