Factors Affecting Agricultural Commodities Export in Iran

Foreign trade is an important component of economic development and source of foreign exchange earnings for investment in new technology and increasing the production power of economy. In recent years, despite fluctuations in the market price of oil, has met the country's foreign exchange earnings with many changes and has influenced the economy and this shows the need to diversify export products and trade and to emphasize the importance of non-oil products trade clearly. Focusing on agriculture sector trade according to the goals such as self-sufficiency and food security and the possibility of high exchange revenues of mentioned sector is avoidable. Since the formation of a strong agricultural sector requires adopting appropriate policies and these policies cannot be adopted without identifying important factors, the present study has discussed the factors affecting agricultural commodities exports in Iran. In the face of factors affecting export agricultural products in Iran were studied in the context of time series models using vector error correction model. Results showed that variables relative price index, real exchange rate, commercial exchange relation and added value of trade and commercial agriculture were positive and significant and also the variable GDP of trade partner countries was positive and significant affecting agricultural exports value index. So if the shocks appeared in the system, shock will be adjusted after 2 periods. In other words, sustainable pattern of agricultural exports was clear.