*3.4. Domestic Resource Costs*

At stage 4, for all product groups included in the array, the study identifies the value of the resources employed to produce one unit's worth of that agricultural product and in such a way reveals the advantages in production. When imposed on the previously identified comparative, trade, and competitive advantages, the parameter of production advantage allows to ascertain positively competitive (four parameters match) and conditionally competitive food and agricultural products (*DRC* < 1), as well as those products recognized as marginally competitive and non-competitive (*DRC* > 1) (Table 6).


**Table 6.** *DRCav* values for selected agricultural products in Central Asia in 2000–2018.

Note: Green cells—product groups for which all four RCA, RTA, LI, and DRC match; yellow cells—product groups with advantage on domestic resource costs. Source: Authors' calculation based on [26,104–108].
