The Relationship between Export and Energy Use in Agriculture Sector of Selected Developing Countries

Implementing the export expansion policies may have significant impact on energy use in developing countries. Therefore, export expansion policies have increased environmental concerns about greenhouse gas emissions. Given to increase mechanization in agriculture sector, there are these concerns about agricultural export activities, too. In this regard, the present study tries to examine the relationship between export and energy consumption in agriculture sector of 28 developing countries in the period 1987-2007. For this purpose, after confirming the existence of unit root with CADF test and verifying cointegration with the tests of KAO, Pedroni and Westerlund, cointegrating vectors were estimated with the methods of AMG, FMOLS and DOLS. Also, it was used PMG to examine causality relationship between the variables. The results showed to exist positive and significant interaction between export and energy consumption in agriculture sector of developing countries but there is not relationship between two variables in short run.