Srudy of Comparative Advantage and Target Markets for Agricultural Exports of East Azarbayjan Province

Export expansion in agriculture sector of Azarbayjan Sharghi province needs to know potential export products and export markets. The aim of this study is to examine comparative advantage and to determine target market for agricultural export products of Azarbayjan Sharghi province. The results of comparative advantage indexes show that watermelon, dried apricots and dried grapes have highest comparative advantage. The findings of numerical taxonomy method suggest best export choices for agricultural export products of Azarbayjan Sharghi province are respectively: export of dried apricots to the Turkey, export of watermelon to Turkey, export of dried grapes to the Algeria, export of dried grapes to the Tunisia, export of dried apricots to the Lebanon, export of dried grapes to the Egypt and export of watermelon to the Romania.