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Title “Non-Agricultural Determinants of Arable Land of Pakistan; An Empirical Analysis ”

Author(s) Ms. Adila Hameed

Abstract Rapid urbanization and infrastructure development has transformed the arable land into soil sealing activities (Permanent conversion of arable land into immoveable material such as buildings, infrastructural development). It also takes more land away from agricultural production, threatening Pakistan’s capability to feed itself. The basic aim of this study is to empirically analyze the impact of industrialization, urbanization, and infrastructure development on the arable land of Pakistan. Thus, this study is an attempt to highlight the importance of the arable land of Pakistan. There are few studies available internationally but not that much work had been done at national level and fewer studies are available for Pakistan's economy because some of the scholars are working on this area only at the provincial level. This study attempts to analyze the impact of non-agricultural use of land such as soil sealing activates on arable land of Pakistan. Study analyzes the determinants of land use by modeling arable land as a dependent variable and urbanization, industrialization and infrastructure development as an independent variables. For empirical analysis standard methodology of Logit has been employed. The results show that urbanization and infrastructure developments are the key drivers of the conversion of farm land into non-agricultural use. The results suggest that due to urbanization, industrialization and infrastructure development arable reduces day by day and there is negative relationship of arable land with urbanization and infrastructure development and our results are consistent with the other studies (Zhang 2004). The results also shows that urbanization and grain deficit are the main sources that effect the arable land and urbanization is the main driving force that convert the arable land into nonagricultural use. The study also suggest some policies as, first there should be vertical integration, for example, the development of the housing societies expand vertically instead of horizontally. Second, before the installation of any industry on the arable land cost and benefit analysis should be require. If the cost of installing industry is greater than agricultural production then agriculture production should be preferred. Last but not least, the decision of Sell and purchase of the arable land must be under control of the government.

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Faculty Management Sciences

Department Economics

Language English

Publication Date 2022-09-30

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