Agriculture_____ The Mainstay of Pakistan's Economy

When the rest of the world is sinking into the ocean of food shortage, how Pakistan can be an exception to this. Pakistan is no more an agriculture economy now. An urgent policy reform is needed to tackle the menace of high costs of production resulting into food fiascos galore in a pseudo agriculture economy.
Agriculture, being the mainstay of Pakistan's economy, is under great surveillance for last few years. That is not the case exclusively with ours, the sector is under threat all the world over owing to enviromental hazards, Malthusian hysteria of population growth, high energy costs including oil price surge, water issues including shortage, logging and salinity, unequeal distribution of lands and feudalism conundrum, technological backwardness, inter alia. Broadly speaking, major issues in the agriculture sector of Pakistan can be divided into three main categories: firstly, environment and energy ; secondly: Feudalism and absence of continual land reforms; and finally the production techniques that are still outmoded in the modern era of science and tecnology.

Though a great proportion of pakistani labour force has been employed by the agri sector yet Pakistan is no more an agriculture economy as is evident from the last few years issues of the Economic Survey of Pakistan , owing to the decreasing contribution of agriculture in GDP(Gross Domestic Production). Now the service Sector is prospering day by day. What it shows is the under utilisation of our land resources at the one hand and the realisation of potentials in the service sector at the other hand.

To meet the ever increasing demands for food owing to high population increase, it is devisable that an urgent policy package should be adopted by the government to boost the agriculture production by tackling the real problems of the peasnats' imbroglios galore including low wages, small lands, high production costs, low subsidies etc. Moreover, land reforms, building of more dams, saving environment, more energy provision, research and development are other core areas needing true attention of both the private as well as the public sector to meet the challenges of food shortage.

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