How is the produce going to be still fresh by the time it reaches Turkey?
Also, grains, spices, garments, rice, leather goods, steel & cement are highly industrialized in Pakistan too while China leads in machinery & pharmaceuticals.
Plus, anything that leaves India will be heavily taxed by both China & Pakistan (to increase the cost of each commodity so that it can't compete against theirs). Afterwards, the above commodities being shipped around will have to pay the shipment price too (again, something that will increase the price). Then, the products will be competing against not only domestic but several other countries too (Turkey leads in chinaware/crockery among many other items, Iranian commodities, Chinese commodities, Pakistani commodities & so on and so forth).
I did, that's why I (and many other members before me) said that Pakistan won't allow India any route through it. That's why I was suggesting alternatives, silly.
Surely the cost will go down overtime. Plus, you have already mentioned that your produce cannot compete against China's. So end of story.
China first has to fulfill it's own cotton needs before exporting.
Plus, look below.
Top Cotton Exports by Country
Below are the 15 countries that exported the highest dollar value worth of cotton during 2015:
- China: US$15.8 billion (29.1% of total cotton exports)
- India: $7.5 billion (13.8%)
- United States: $5.9 billion (10.8%)
- Pakistan: $3.1 billion (5.7%)
- Hong Kong: $2.3 billion (4.3%)
- Vietnam: $1.8 billion (3.2%)
- Turkey: $1.7 billion (3.1%)
- Italy: $1.5 billion (2.7%)
- Brazil: $1.4 billion (2.7%)
- Germany: $998.9 million (1.8%)
- Uzbekistan: $835.4 million (1.5%)
- Australia: $820.6 million (1.5%)
- Indonesia: $731.6 million (1.3%)
- Spain: $652 million (1.2%)
- South Korea: $644.8 million (1.2%)
Despite being 4x the size of Pakistan India's cotton exports are only 2.5x higher than Pakistan's. On top of that, arable land (the is used for crops) is 47.87% of India's total land available. Pakistan's arable land is at 26.02%.
That leads to 1,423,267.5 sq km of arable land for India while for Pakistan, it's 200,581.6 sq km. So, India's arable land is 7x bigger than Pakistan's.
So, let's end our Pakistan Vs. India discussion. Let's keep it to India, shall we?
Also, when Chabahar is complete, then we can talk.
Again, your diverting from the topic & bringing in CPEC. Keep it to India & it's exports. Also, the plant being made in Iran, you think it won't be taxed? How will the fertilizer be moved back to India? Through sea? Possibly through Pakistani territorial waters (more taxes, higher costs if they avoid Pakistani waters; higher cost either way).
You get the point, hopefully.