A critique of the green revolution in West Pakistan

Amjad, Rashid (1972): A critique of the green revolution in West Pakistan. Published in: Pakistan Economic and Social Review, Vol. 10, No. 1 (JUNE 1972), pp. 17-41 , Vol. Vol.10, : pp. 17-41.

Abstract

This paper analyses the distinct features of the “Green Revolution” in the context of Pakistan’s impressive agriculture performance in the 1960s. It points out to the “conflicts, social unrest and tensions’ it generated and draws lesson in the framing of a future agriculture policy.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Agricultural Economics, Agribusiness, Green Revolution, Pakistan
• Subjects: Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics ; Environmental and Ecological Economics > Q1 - Agriculture > Q13 - Agricultural Markets and Marketing ; Cooperatives ; Agribusiness

References

Aresvik, O. 'Reflections on the Socio-Economic Objectives of the Fourth Five Year Plan-Agricultural Strategy" Agriculture Department, Government of Pakistan, Nov. 1968 (Mimeo) p. 1.

Ibid p. 19.

Alavi H. 'Elite farmer strategy and Regional Disparities in the Agricultural Development of West Pakistan (Rural Development in Pakistan (R. I. Stevens, H.A. Alavi and P. Bertocci (eds.) Michigan State University p. 3.

Gotsch CH. & Falcon, W.P. 'Agriculture Price Policy and the Development of W. Pakistan', Vol. I, Final Report (AID/OSTI MIMEO). Ch. 1. p. 3.

Hussain M. 'Price incentives for producing Mexican Wheat' Pakistan Development Review Vol. X No. 4 Winter 1970 p. 450

Qureshi S.K. "Price Incentive for Production of Mexi-Pak Wheat' PDR Vol. XI No. 1 Spring 1971 p. 59

Ibid p. 60

Ibid p. 60

Hamid N. and Amjad R. 'Unemployment/Underemployment. A Survey of 27 villages. A Preliminary Report' ' Punjab University Economics Department, Research Project. (Unpublished Mimeo).

Fertilizer and Mexican wheat survey Report, 1970' Planning and Development Department, Bureau of Statistics, Government of the Punjab, (Mimeo). p. 25.

bid. p. 15.

Bose S.R. "Socio-Economic Aspects of farm Mechanisation in West Pakistan: Pakistan Institute of Development Economics. (Mimeo) p. 1.

Kaneda H. 'Economic Implications of the Green Revolution' and the Strategy of Agricultural Development in W. Pakistan' Pakistan Development Review Vol. IX No. 2, Summer 1969 p. 139.

Ibid p. 139.

Bose S.R. Opt. cit. p. 7.

Bose S.R. Opt. cit. p. 1

Kaneda, Opt. cit. p. 133

Burki S.J. "Agricultures New Entrepreneurs' Pakistan Times.

Memorandum for the Pakistan Consortium 1970-71, Planning Commission, Government of Pakistan, Page. 4.