Evaluating Agricultural Policies Introduced in the 1950s and their Impacts on Pakistan’s Economy

Abstract

In the year 1947 Pakistan was, in reality, an agrarian country. The share of the agriculture sector in the national GDP was explicitly greater than that of other sectors such as the manufacturing sector and services sector. In the early years, the reason for greater agriculture share in the national GDP was due to underdeveloped industrial infrastructure and lack of labour force in the services sector. To sum it up, the lack of industrial infrastructure, few areas of services and lack of technical education paved the way for the agriculture sector to grow and develop. These were certain structural factors responsible for the decent growth rate in the agriculture sector.  The process of the Green Revolution has been discussed in great length. The economic and political cost in the shape of the debacle of East Pakistan and such other implications of the agricultural policies was the main rationale of this paper.