Developing Sustainable Agriculture in Pakistan
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Agriculture plays a pivotal role in the economy and development of Pakistan providing food to consumers, raw materials to industries, and a market for industrial goods. Unfortunately, agricultural production is stagnant due to several barriers including a fixed cropping pattern, reliance on a few major crops, a narrow genetic pool, poor seed quality, and a changing climate. In addition, the high cost of production, weak phytosanitary compliance mechanisms, and a lack of cold chain facilities makes Pakistan agriculturally uncompetitive in export markets. Despite all these issues, agriculture is the primary industry in Pakistan and small farmers continue to dominate the business. Small farmers grow crops for subsistence under a fixed cropping pattern and a holistic approach is required to develop agriculture to improve the livelihoods of the rural populace.
This book presents an exhaustive look at agriculture in Pakistan. Chapters provide critical analyses of present trends, inadequacies in agriculture, strategic planning, improvement programs and policies while keeping in view the natural resources, plant- and animal-related agricultural production technologies, input supplies, population planning, migration and poverty, and balanced policies on finance, credit, marketing, and trade.
Table of Contents
Preface
Editors
Contributors
Chapter 1 Planning for Sustainable Agriculture in Pakistan
Iqrar Ahmad Khan and Muhammad Sarwar Khan
Section I Natural Resources and Input Supplies
Chapter 2 Land Use in Pakistan
Muhammad Tahir and Tasneem Khaliq
Chapter 3 Water: Issues and Remedies
Allah Bakhsh and Muhammad Adnan Shahid
Chapter 4 Rural Energy Solutions for Community Development
Anjum Munir, Allah Bakhsh, Abdul Ghafoor, Waseem Amjad, and Umar Farooq
Chapter 5 Environmental Degradation and Remedial Strategies
Haroon Rashid and Abdul Nasir
Chapter 6 Land Degradation: Problems and Remedies
Zahir Ahmad Zahir, Maqshoof Ahmad, and Ghulam Murtaza
Chapter 7 Canal Operation through Management Information System
Muhammad Arshad, Riaz Ahmad, and Muhammad Usman
Chapter 8 Precision Agriculture and ICT: Future Farming
Muhammad Jehanzeb Masud Cheema, Hafiz Sultan Mahmood, M. Ahsan Latif, and Ahmad Kamal Nasir
Chapter 9 Farm Services
Asghar Ali, Sarfraz Hassan, and Abdul Ghafoor
Chapter 10 Input Supplies: Production of Quality Seeds
Muhammad Sarwar Khan and Faiz Ahmad Joyia
Chapter 11 Fertilizers and Gypsum
Javaid Akhtar, Muhammad Yaseen, Muhammad Rashid, Ghulam Murtaza, and Muhammad Aamer Maqsood
Chapter 12 Input Supplies: The Starring Role of Pesticide Inputs in Agricultural Productivity and Food Security
Muhammad Jalal Arif, Muhammad Dildar Gogi, Ahmad Nawaz, Muhammad Sufyan, Rashad Rasool Khan, and Muhammad Arshad
Section II Crop Production and Health
Chapter 13 Climate Change and Agriculture
Ashfaq Ahmad and Khalid Hussain
Chapter 14 Treatment and Management of Low Quality Water for Irrigation
Ghulam Murtaza, Muhammad Zia-ur-Rehman, Muhammad Aamer Maqsood, and Abdul Ghafoor
Chapter 15 Stagnant Yields
Abdul Khaliq, Amir Shakeel, Muhammad Kashif, and Ghulam Mustafa
Chapter 16 Crop Diversification
Shahzad M. A. Basra, Maqsood Hussain, Abdul Wahid, and Muhammad Farooq
Chapter 17 High Value Horticultural Crops
Iftikhar Ahmad, Saeed Ahmad, Khurram Ziaf, M. Muzammil Jahangir, and Raheel Anwar
Chapter 18 Forestry and Range Management in Pakistan: Present Potential and Way Forward
Muhammad T. Siddiqui, Muhammad F. Nawaz, Rashid A. Khan, and Zahoor H. Khan
Chapter 19 Biotechnology and GM Crops
Muhammad Sarwar Khan and Faiz Ahmad Joyia
Chapter 20 Plant Diseases of Major Crops and the Way Forward for Their Management
Muhammad Amjad Ali, Amjad Abbas, Muhammad Atiq, Nasir Ahmad Rajput, Khalid Naveed, and Nazir Javed
Chapter 21 Trends in Sustainable Management of Emerging Insect Pests
Muhammad Jalal Arif, Waqas Wakil, Muhammad Dildar Gogi, Rashad Rasool Khan, Muhammad Arshad, Muhammad Sufyan, Ahmad Nawaz, Abid Ali, and Shahid Majeed
Chapter 22 Status of Pesticides and Their Alternatives for Crop Sustainability in Pakistan
Amjad Abbas, Muhammad Amjad Ali, Arbab Ahmad, Safdar Ali, Amer Habib, Luqman Amrao, and Abdul Rehman
Section III Animal Production and Health
Chapter 23 Livestock Production: Status and Policy Options
M. Sajjad Khan, S. A. Bhatti, S. H. Raza, M. S. Rehman, and F. Hassan
Chapter 24 Poultry Production: Status, Issues, and Future Prospect
Pervez Akhtar, Umar Farooq, and M. Sajjad Khan
Chapter 25 Inland Fisheries and Aquaculture in Pakistan
Muhammad Javed and Khalid Abbas
Chapter 26 Livestock and Poultry Health: Issues and Way Forward
M. Tariq Javed, Ghulam Muhammad, Nazir Ahmad, Laeeq Akbar Lodhi, Zafar Iqbal, Sajjad-ur-Rahman, Ahmad Din Anjum, Faqir Muhammad. Zafar Iqbal Qureshi, Muhammad Sohail Sajid, Muhammad Kashif Saleemi, Farah Deeba, Bilal Aslam, Aisha Khatoon, Muhammad Imran, Muhammad Imran Arshad, and Rizwan Aslam
Chapter 27 Malnutrition in Children and One Health
Mian Kamran Sharif, Masood Sadiq Butt, Muhammad Kashif Saleemi, and Muhammad Imran Arshad
Section IV Agricultural Incentives for Farmers
Chapter 28 Gender Dimensions of Agriculture: Status, Trends, and Gap
Farkhanda Anjum, Muhammad Iqbal Zafar, Kanwal Asghar, and Ayesha Riaz
Chapter 29 Population Planning and Labor in Pakistan.............................................................. 635
A. A. Maan, Izhar A. Khan, and N. Farah
Chapter 30 Rural Poverty
Saria Akhtar, Muhammad Iqbal Zafar, Shabbir Ahmad, and Naima Nawaz
Chapter 31 Rural–Urban Migration
N. Farah, Izhar A. Khan, and A. A. Maan
Chapter 32 Rural Development
Tanvir Ali, Babar Shahbaz, Muhammad Iftikhtar, Ijaz Ashraf, Shoukat Ali, Ghazanfar Ali Khan, Aqeela Saghir, and Muhammad Saleem Mohsin
Chapter 33 Outreach and Social Mobilization: Challenges and Opportunities
Munir Ahmad, Babar Shahbaz, and Mahmood Ahmad Randhawa
Chapter 34 Fiscal Policy in Agriculture
Tahira Sadaf, Muhammad Ashfaq, Rakhshanda Kousar, and Qaisar Abbas
Chapter 35 Agricultural Credit and Cooperation
Khalid Mushtaq and M. Khalid Bashir
Chapter 36 Agricultural Marketing
Abdul Ghafoor and Hammad Badar
Chapter 37 Regional Trade: Pakistan’s Perspective
Burhan Ahmad, Abdul Ghafoor, and Asif Maqbool
Chapter 38 Value Addition
Moazzam R. Khan, Aamir Shehzad, Aysha Sameen, and Masood Sadiq Butt
Index