In the post liberalization era, the export sector of Indian economy made comprehensive
progress resulting in employment generation, speeding up the process of economic
development, bringing newer technologies, integrating Indian economy with global
economy in general and contributing to country foreign exchange reserves in particular.
Punjab, being an economically advanced state has attracted attention of investors,
industrialist, entrepreneurs, policy makers and agricultural scientists etc and accordingly
several studies are conducted in order to understand the nature of industries, factor
facilitating business, state innate strengths & factor endowments and suitability of business
models including sectoral studies looking at export potential of key products.