Pakistan Economy: The Green Revolution
Pakistan Economy: The Green Revolution
Pakistan Economy: The Green Revolution
Issues
Tube wells were given to farmers owning land greater than 25 acres.
Tractors were also mostly provided to these farmers ignoring the
small farmers. In addition to this, due to greater initial costs these
wells were not installed in the mountainous regions of
Baluchistan, KPK and Sindh. Instead they were planted in just
three regions of Punjab that were Faisalabad, Sahiwal and Multan.
This created regional and income disparities between these
regions and the rest of the country.
Land Reforms
Since most of the land was unequally distributed, Muslim League
decided to make some amendments. But a problem arose, 80% and
90% of the parliament members in Punjab and Sindh respectively were
the same land owners, hence no reform could be made which would
actually reduce their control and power in order to strengthen the small
farmers
Analysis
Like communism, this idea of reforming the land looked good in theory
but once it was implemented the results showed otherwise. There was
a huge political factor involved that made this whole reform ineffective
due to biasness involved. Huge chunks of lands were gifted, as well as
many people tricked the whole ceiling thing through transference of
land to their kin and relatives. The most primitive action that would
have been taken obviously was to remain unbiased throughout the
implementation of these reforms. Instead of limiting land ownership to
an individual it should have been applied on the whole family so that
people would not have retained the extra land holdings by transferring
them to their family members.
The PIU calculations were to a great extent flawed and should’ve been
discarded once it was clear that it’s not an effective way.
In short, the green revolution was good for some and bad for others.
The consequences of that whole era were not certainly most desirable
as it did boost the agricultural and economic growth at the expense of
creating regional and income disparities in the country.