reasons of agriculture trade deficits of pakistan

               effects the yielding of the agriculture products.
                REASONS OF TRADEBeside all these problems water logging and salinity is
DEFICIT IN AGRICULTURE SECTOR OFmain issue or threat to the agriculture sector. It has
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 Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â lands. Farmers are facing problems while selling their
 PAKISTANagriculture products in the markets due the lack of
 transport facilities and intermediaries’ purchases
 crops from the farmer’s lands and they do not
 give the fair prices to the farmers and this price
Agriculture is the major sector of economy. It noteven do not compensate the actual cost of the
only meets the food requirement of entire populationfarmers. Actually the middle man takes the
but also supplements the foreign exchange recourses.advantage of farmer’s hard working due to
The rural population constitutes about 60% of thewhich the farmers fad off the middleman system
total population .yet it has no organization of its own.and minimize the productivity of crops.
Not even a chamber or to represent its views and 
protect interests. One of the interests of the farming                        Lack of
community is to get the fair return of their produceagro-based industries is emerging problem in the
in the market. But they are facing a lot of problemsagriculture sector of Pakistan. The agro-based
in the distribution and or marketing of their agricultureindustries like livestock, poultry, fisheries and dairy etc
products.are limited. These industries depend on the agriculture
 product. If these industries are in abundance the
                       Pakistan is andemand of agricultural product will increase and
agricultural country, the people of Pakistan areconsequently of agricultural crops as well. Another
hardworking and the soil is suitable for the cultivation.important problem is the lack transport facilities and
But   in spite of all these facts Pakistan is unable toinfrastructure which is the big constrain of farmers to
show any reasonable productivity in the agriculturebring their agriculture product or crops in the main
sectors. Agriculture sector is the mainstay to earnmarket. Ill planning in the agriculture sector creates
foreign exchange or to compensate themany problems for the farmers in the productivity of
Pakistan’s foreign trade deficits, but the dilemmacrops.
is that Pakistan is importing wheat from the foreign 
countries instead of cultivating in their own fields due                  Pesticides and chemicals
to which Pakistan trade deficit is increasing day byrates in the market are very high and farmer could
day. Approximately a decade before Pakistan sectornot effort these high prices pesticides due to which
contribute ¼th to GDP, provides 65% to exportmost part of their crops become the victim of
earning and provides 44.80% of labor force. But nowinsects and spoil the whole fields of crops.
this ratio is decreasing day by day due to the 
following problems.                  Pakistan inherited
 feudalistic land tenure at the time of partition in 1947.
                         In PakistanAbout 7% of the land owners owned 53%of the
cultivable land is under utilized; out of 80 milliontotal land. These land lords had little interst to
hectors only 25.2% is cultivated, but it is not fullycultivate all the land or to raise the productivity of
utilized due to the lack of capital, lack of water andtheir land. Need was felt to breakup the land assets
insufficient credit facilities. For agriculture land water isand provide security of tenure to landless peasants.
core component but there is a scarcity of irrigationFor this purpose different government have
water. It is due to the less rain falls, snow falls andintroduced t6he land reform in country like land
water losses from water courses. The knowledgereform proposals,  like land reform proposal of
regarding the agriculture is also a big problem,1958,1959,1972 but in spite all these it did not bring
because of the lack of knowledge agricultureany positive change for land period of time.
researches are not taken place in our country and 
researchers are unable to produce any new crop by                    If the government of
different biological methods.Pakistan take remedial steps to overcome theses
                        Pakistan isproblems in the agriculture sector. It may take boom
facing problem in adequate supply of inputs likein the agriculture sector due to which the
seeds, chemical fertilizer, pesticides, machinery, andgovernment of Pakistan can earn a lot of foreign
credits. These all things fell short when required. Itexchange and minimize the trade deficit of Pakistan.