AGRICULTURE SECTOR

SADIA AHMAD

The
2nd largest sector of Economy.

Producing nearly1/4th i.e. 21.4% of the

GDP.

The largest sector of Pakistan economy

employing its half of the working force

45%.

Rural population: 60%

Engaged in farming: 44%

Contributed to sports earnings: 66%

Provide raw material for two major

industries of Pakistan (Textile & Sugar)

Creates demands for equipments,

machinery, fertilizers, chemicals,
electricity and transportation.

Agriculture
sector in Pakistan is
divided into Sub sectors:

Crops

Livestock

Fisheries

Forestry

Land usage in Pakistan

Total area: 79.6 million hectors
Cultivated area: 25.2 %

Major
Crops (Wheat, Cotton, Rice, and Sugar
cane)

25.2%

Minor Crops (Mustard, Barley, Tobacco

etc) 12.3%

Livestock 55.4 %

Fisheries & Forestry 7.1%

phases.

Phase 1 up to in 1960 in which

agricultural sector was only 1.5%

1960-65 phase II growth 3.9%

1964-70 it was 7.78%(Green

Revolution)

1970-77 declined to 1.67% due to

severe floods in Pakistan.

During year 2012-13 Growth rate is

3.3 %.

The
growth in agriculture sector has
not been satisfactory due to
Old cultivation methods,
Lack of Motivation
Small land holdings,

 Natural catastrophe,
Pest attacks.

Agriculture largely depends on irrigation

and weather conditions.

With the more commercialization and

industrialization of the country, the share of
agriculture in GDP is decreasing.

THE CLIMATE, IRRIGATION

AND LAND
UITILIZATION

Pakistan is dry country, 250 mm average

rain/ year on more than 3/4th of the
country.

Summer monsoon (July-Aug) brings

more rains and enables Kharif crops

Winter rains (Jan- Feb) enables Rabi

crops.

However
heavy rains and snowfall over Himalayan
and Karakoram range creates the greatest
rivers which
irrigates Pakistan and India.

The Indus basin nearly cultivates 32

million hectors.

In order to utilize the water of great

rivers the British
in 1860 laid a network of canals in the
area now
Pakistan.

The
artificial irrigation system nearly fetch
44% of the
cultivatable land in Pakistan.

Tube wells are another source of

irrigation (7.21

million hectors).

Through the artificial irrigation system

the farmers are
able to grow two and in some areas 3
crops every
year.

There
are three broad institutional
arrangements.
1.Owner cultivation,
2.Owner-cum-tenant cultivation,
3. Pure tenant cultivation.

13.75 Mill people are employed in

agriculture

over 10 Mill people are Landless

tenants.