Restoration of Soil Health for Achieving Sustainable Growth in Agriculture

Bashir Ahmad, Munir Ahmad () and Zulfiqar Ahmad Gill
Additional contact information
Bashir Ahmad: Faculty of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad.
Zulfiqar Ahmad Gill: Faculty of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad.

The Pakistan Development Review, 1998, vol. 37, issue 4, 997-1015

Abstract: Total geographical area of Pakistan is 79.61 million hectares (m.ha.). Area under cultivation is 21.59 m.ha.; of which, only 5.34 m.ha. (i.e., 25 percent) is free from soil limitations and is fit for intensive agriculture [Mian and Mirza (1993)]. The remaining agricultural lands have various types of problems including formation of slow permeability, water logging, salinity and sodicity, and wind and water erosion. Thus, on an average, three out of four hectares of cultivated land in Pakistan are in poor health. This in turn is causing temporary or permanent decline in the productive capacity of the land. Therefore, poor soil health is posing serious threat to the sustainable growth of agriculture.

Date: 1998
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (4)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.pide.org.pk/pdf/PDR/1998/Volume4/997-1015.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pid:journl:v:37:y:1998:i:4:p:997-1015

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in The Pakistan Development Review from Pakistan Institute of Development Economics Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Khurram Iqbal ().