Analyzing the comparative advantage in honey production in Iran by DRC Index

Iran is the eighth country in the world by producing 74 thousand and 577 tons of honey in 1392. It also ranks fourth in the number of hives in the world. In 1392 more than 74 thousand tons of honey is produced in the country valued at 1,149 million dollars. There is a high potential for production of export one hundred percent pure honey in Iran so more than 2 billion dollars acquired by exporting honey and it’s accessories such as pollen, royal jelly and bee venom. Therefore it can be used as in our non-oil export baskets. In this article, index of comparative advantage in the export of honey in the country for 1388-1391 are calculated. For this purpose, the index of revealed comparative advantage (RCA), Location Queficient (LQ) and domestic resource cost (DRC) are computed. Result of study show Ardabil and Azerbaijan west comparative higher advantages among country’s provinces in production of honey. According to the results, index of domestic resource price, Iran has comparative advantage in production of honey.