Agriculture

Agricultural sector is indispensable to the country s economic growth, food security, employment generation and poverty alleviation particularly, at the rural level. It contributes percent to the GDP and provides employment to around percent of the labour force. More than 65-70 percent of the population depends on Agriculture for its livelihood. Agricultural growth rate has been constrained by shrinking arable land, climate change, water shortages, and large-scale population and labour shift from rural to urban areas. Increasing agricultural productivity, therefore, requires adoption of new approaches. With strong forward and backward linkages with the secondary (industrial) and tertiary (services) sectors, it can play a pivotal role to spur economic growth.

P: Provisional Note: Figures in parentheses are growth/decline rates Source: Pakistan Bureau of Statistics a) Important Crops i) Cotton Cotton crop stands vital in agriculture as well as textile sector of the economy. It contributes around 0.6 percent to GDP and 3.1 percent of the value added in agriculture.

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