Study On Comparative Advantage And Market Competitiveness Of Shandons Corn

China’s sowing area and total output of corn are second only to the United States,ranking second in the world. As the main food crop, its production is more than wheat,becoming the second largest grain varieties after rice. Corn has played an important role inChina’s historical breakthrough of grain production in several times. Shandong as one of themain corn production provinces, its perennial corn planting area at about2.6million ha,which accounts for about24%of the total area planted crop, and ranking second in the fourbig food crops after wheat.This paper first introduce status of the domestic and foreign corn production, trade andconsumption, and then carry on comparative advantage analysis on Shandong maize,processing data, calculating size advantage index, efficiency advantage index, andcomprehensive advantages index of different areas and different crops, these indicators reflectthe condition of corn sowing area, production and yield,which use directing index comparison;Comparative advantage analysis focuses on the competitiveness of corn production link, andthen analysis market competitiveness of corn circulation, in terms of cost income, price,and foreign trade; Through above analysis to Shandong corn comparative advantage andCompetitiveness, The last part further study on competitive factors, giving suggestions in theend.Conclusion: Shandong corn production occupy an important position in the national corn production, mainly because of large planting scale and strong comprehensive advantage.But Shandong corn yield level is low no matter compare with other major food crops, or withothe rmain corn production province.Production material and service cost of Shandong corn are high, this is partly because ofits high agricultural intensification degree, partly because of price rise of the agriculturalmaterials. Price fluctuation of relevant raw materials and agriculture’s too much relying onfertilizer inputs lead to chemical fertilizer costs high; Increasing use of agricultural machinery,high agricultural diesel price, narrow scattered land, and low mechanical operation efficiencyall lead to the increase of lease operating cost.Corn price is one of the important factors affecting the market competitiveness, which isalso effected by corn production, maize cost, resident consumption level and income level.Economic analysis comes to conclusion that corn price is positively related to residentsincome, while is inversely related to residents consumption level and GDP.Through the infrastructure construction, science and technology innovation, system support to raise corn yield, stabilize production material price, reduce costs, and at the sametime, improve the stability of corn price are all effective ways to enhance Shandong corncomparative advantage and market competitiveness.