Investigation of Effective Factors on Iran’s Comparative Advantage in Pistachio Export and Ranking of its Target Markets

Export of agricultural products has an important role in non-oil exports. Pistachio is an important production. In this study, Revaled Comparative Advantage (RCA) is used for surveying the place of exports of Iran. Results showed that Iran has comparative advantage in export of pistachio, but; growth of this index is being negative in these years. The next aim of this research is defining target markets and ranking of them until pistachio of Iran establishes its place in the world with showing the list of potential target markets and also with notice to purposeful export. Analysis of time series and model of Vector Autoregressive is used during 1961-2006 for survey of effective factors on comparative advantage of pistachio exports in Iran. Assessment of the model showed that exchange rate, amount of domestic product and world price has positive effect and amount of product of other producers, export price of Iran and product vacillation has negative effects on comparative advantage.