Exporters choose to export, for the foreign market through exporters participating in the foreign markets directly and also positively react to price signals in the domestic markets explicitly. When there is an increasing demand for commodities in the world market, exporter would receive higher prices. The specific objective of the study is; to identify factors affecting the export participation and performance of agricultural commodities exporters of Tamil Nadu. The results clearly indicated that among the independent variables, foreign market price and distribution of commodities by the ith firm have significantly and positively influenced the State level of export participation of the exporters. On the contrary, domestic market price, the quantity produced for the domestic market, quantity produced for the foreign market and the cost of export commodities have influenced the export participation negatively. The firms would produce positive quantities for the domestic market, but, in practice, some firms would produce for zero exports. Significant and negative nonlinear results were also found for Domestic market price, Quantity produced for the domestic market, Quantity produced for the foreign market and the cost of export commodities in this study.

Nataraja, the dancing Lord who is dwelling in Chidambaram is believed to perform his cosmic dance in the same place. He performs his dances in happiness and delight and fascinates everything into Himself. The peculiarities of Lord Shiva, particularly his apparel, activities-specifically the midnight dance at the incineration grounds bounded by different strange beings, have engrossed the loving and religious attention from his various devotees. This has led to the expression of their adoration for their Idol in the form of Tirumurais. Thevaram, which was composed by Sambandar, Appar and Sundarar-popularly referred to as Tevaram-trio. The Trio rapture over Lord Siva with their songs at holy places and shrines that they visit, which popularly now is represented as Thevaram. This study presents a review on the portrayal of Lord Nataraja in Thevaram. The dance of Nataraja, which is referred to as the cosmic dance, is representative of the metrical movements of the cosmos. The Thevaram refers to the first seven volumes of Tirumurai, compilation of Śaiva devotional poetry. The poems of Thevaram are remained as a traditional practice in various Lord Shiva temples in Tamil Nadu. The image of the Hindu Idol Shiva dancing within a gigantic ring of fire is amongst the most adored and breathtaking signs of the Hindu formation of the nature of the cosmos. Indeed, this can be beautifully portrayed in The Tevaram-trio associates some of the signs of Siva-Nataraja with cosmic dance. This research discusses in detail how Lord Nataraja through his dance forms represent an Embodiment of Happiness and Spirituality and how the Thirumurais convey it in their hymns.

Recent developments in the international trade scenario and corresponding alterations in India’s foreign trade policies have depicted far reaching implications for India’s agricultural sector in general and agricultural exports in particular. The present study has ascertained the changes in comparative advantage status of India’s major agricultural exports during the postreforms period (1994-95 to 2008-09). India had enjoyed a comparative advantage in tea exports but had depicted a declining trend over the years. A similar pattern had been observed in coffee exports also, where India had been found losing its comparative advantage to other world coffee exporters. An unstable pattern of comparative advantage had been observed in the case of rice exports with intermittent ups and downs in the status. A gradual decline in India’s comparative advantage had been depicted for exports of sugar and cashew also.As opposed to other commodities, India had strengthened its position in the global markets in exports of Ground nut. But as far as the exports of fresh fruits and fresh vegetables are concerned, India cannot boast to have a comparative advantage. India has been found losing out its comparative advantage in export of some of the agricultural commodities to world during the period after economic reforms.

This paper combines policy analysis matrix techniques to model the analysis of profitability from sugarcane cultivation. Policy analysis matrices are computed for a sample of sugarcane growers located in the wet land of the Tamil Nadu under observed conventional and profit-efficient farming conditions. The EPC estimates showed that it was less than one in all the period under consideration indicating that the state had not protected the sugarcane crop during the period under consideration. The EPC ranged between 0.006 in 2010-11 and 0.038 in 2008-09 and it's implied less import substitute. Thus the unfavorable EPC, ERP and DRC along with NPC of more than unity should be viewed in its proper perspective. The main conclusion is that the usefulness of the policy analysis matrix might be substantially enhanced by simulating profitability after efficiency-improving managerial decisions have been adopted.