Access Barriers for Marine Products Exporters in Andhra Pradesh

Abstract: The current study examines the barriers faced by marine product exporters in Andhra Pradesh, India. These are categorised into infrastructural, operational, human resource, financial, raw material, general, and exporting process barriers. The present study is descriptive in nature, and surveys 115 marine exporters from Andhra Pradesh. Cronbach’s alpha and factor analysis are used to assess the reliability of the questionnaires and indicate a good reliability score between the variables. Following that, we used a single-factor Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) test to determine the significance of the variables. Finally, the findings show that infrastructural, general, and exporting process barriers have a positive significant relationship with export performance, whereas human resource, financial, raw material and operational barriers have a negative significant relationship. This study can be beneficial to state and central governments by increasing foreign reserves and tax revenue, increasing employment opportunities, expanding the global market, properly utilising natural resources, and improving banks’ financial schemes.