Agriculture is the backbone and single largest sector of Pakistan’s economy as its contribution to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) exceeded 25.3 percent during 1997-98. Crops, livestock, fishing and forestry sub-sectors being its main components, only crop and livestock sub-sectors are of...

A major objective of this paper is to review the growth performance of Pakistan's livestock sub-sector. While over time the growth rate of livestock production has been good, it has exhibited considerable variation from product to product and period to period. Poultry production exhibited high...

This paper deals with an empirical verification of factors determining farm level fertiliser demand in irrigated Pakistan. The results show that education and extension in general have positive influence on fertiliser use per cultivated acre. Fertiliser demand exhibits inverse relationship with...

The paper aims to review the growth performance of Pakistan’s agriculture from 1950 to 1995. The long-term growth rate of agriculture, although respectable, has exhibited considerable yearly fluctuations even between decades. The period of the fifties and early seventies lacked any growth....

In today's world economy, financial crises have been quite rampant and have been a source of greater misery, deprivation and poverty among a growing number of countries [Wolfensehn (1998)]. Some of the major causes of this state of affairs especially in Pakistan lie in rising debt servicing...

The main objective of this paper has been to review Pakistan’s historical experience in agricultural development in terms of growth, income distribution, and rural poverty. While the long-term growth rates between 1949-50 and 1994-95 were satisfactory, the variations around the average have...