Sthdy On International Competitiveness Of Pineapple Industry In China

Being the third popular tropical fruit in the world, pineapple performs extremely active in international trade among countries. Among those 80 counties and areas plant pineapple, which nearly 98% of those from Asia, America and Africa. As the 4th largest harvest area with the 6th yield in the world, China becomes a leading power of production and consuming, but not on trade. Recently, with an increasing in domestic yield, higher import with lower export and a dull sale in those main producing areas, to study the international competitive of pineapple industry and to analyze influence factors in import and export will have various vital meanings in predicting the trend of how China pineapple industry develop, improving the economic benefits, promoting farmers’ income.This article make use of international competition theory on agriculture production and its related theories combine with qualitative and quantitative analysis methods to indicate the producing, consuming and trading circumstances of pineapple industry in China. Influence factors of international competitiveness in the field of pineapple industry also been analyzed, and an index system structured to explicit the international competition of pineapple industry in China. Methods of empirical and comparative analysis are used in order to compare the international competitiveness between China and other main cultivating countries. So countermeasure are proposed in order to promote the international competitiveness of pineapple.Conclusions are drew from analyzing: firstly, Costa Rica, Brazil, Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, China and India are the 7 largest pineapple producing countries, account over 60% in production. Secondly, after analyzed the supply and demand status of China get a conclusion of which Guangdong province and Hainan province are the main pineapple cultivated area of China with over 90% production. China is a main import country of fresh or dry pineapple which the pineapple are come from Southeast Asia and export to Russia, Kazakhstan, Hongkong, Macao and other areas. Thirdly, there are many influence factors of pineapple industry of China such as resource factors and non-resource factors. Also, there are many influence factors to affect import and export, such as GDP of trade partners, per capita income, membership of APEC and so on. Fourthly, the index system and exponents of Chinese pineapple industry international competitiveness are found. The results turn out to be as follow: international competitiveness of Chinese pineapple is in the medium level among the 7 main cultivating countries, which Costa Rica ranks NO.1 with the international competitiveness index value of 1.461, Philippines is followed with the value of 1.412, and Thailand 1.118. On the aspect of fresh and dry pineapple, Costa Rica gets the highest international competitiveness with the value of 1.69; on pineapple can, Indonesia gets the best international competitiveness with the value of 1.71; on pineapple juice, Costa Rica ranks NO.1 with the value of 1.34. At last, this article gives advice to enhance the international competitiveness of Chinese pineapple industry by accelerating structure adjustment of pineapple varieties on supply side,improving the production condition of pineapple and expanding the farmer income growth space.The innovation points of this article are as below: firstly, build a good evaluation index system of Chinese Pineapple industry international competitiveness which is comparatively perfect from the level of quantity, quality and price; secondly, a international competitiveness index of Chinese pineapple industry is created with the cobweb model applied to evaluate the international competitiveness of three kinds of pineapple products; thirdly, the gravity model is applied to research the influence factors of China pineapple products’ export trade which helps analyzing the influence factors of export trade of China pineapple products.