This paper uses the farm-level survey data to estimate the stochastic frontier production function incorporating inefficiency effects. Sufficient evidence of positive relationship between wheat productivity and higher and balanced use of fertiliser nutrients was present. The productivity showed...

Agriculture is the backbone and single largest sector of Pakistan’s economy as its contribution to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) exceeded 25.3 percent during 1997-98. Crops, livestock, fishing and forestry sub-sectors being its main components, only crop and livestock sub-sectors are of...

It follows from the experience of World economies that rising and balanced use of fertilisers is the key factor in agricultural productivity [FAO (1995); SFS and STI (1996); Habib-ur-Rehman (1982) and Pinstrup-Anderson (1976)]. In the case of Pakistan the stepped up fertiliser use has been...

The agriculture sector plays a crucial role in the overall development of the country. The sector shares about 24 percent of the GDP and employs about 44 percent of the workforce in the country. Crops sub-sector is the major contributor towards agriculture, sharing more than 53 percent of the...

The results of this study indicate that both wheat productivity and technical efficiency measures are positively related to farm size. This result is in contrast to the previous work using data from developing countries. Wheat yield is negatively associated with the area under rice crop,...

A major objective of this paper is to review the growth performance of Pakistan's livestock sub-sector. While over time the growth rate of livestock production has been good, it has exhibited considerable variation from product to product and period to period. Poultry production exhibited high...

This paper deals with an empirical verification of factors determining farm level fertiliser demand in irrigated Pakistan. The results show that education and extension in general have positive influence on fertiliser use per cultivated acre. Fertiliser demand exhibits inverse relationship with...