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Output Effects of Tubewells on the Agriculture of the Punjab: Some Empirical Results

Author(s) -

Hiromitsu Kaneda,

Mohammed Ghaffar

Publication year - 1970

Publication title -

the pakistan development review

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.154

H-Index - 26

ISSN - 0030-9729

DOI - 10.30541/v10i1pp.68-87

Subject(s) - cropping , agriculture , irrigation , fertilizer , resource (disambiguation) , five year plan , agricultural economics , agricultural engineering , environmental science , geography , agronomy , economics , biology , engineering , computer science , computer network , archaeology , china

It is now established that the encouraging performance of theagriculture of West Pakistan during the second-plan period took placelargely as a result of water-resource development in which privatetubewells were particularly important1. According to the pioneeringstudy by the Late Ghulam Mohammad, additional water made available bythe tubewells enabled the farmers to: "/) increase the depth ofirrigation for existing crops; ii) increase the intensity of cropping byeliminating fallowing and by double cropping; Hi) grow more valuablecrops like cotton, rice, fruits and vegetables; iv) increase the use offertilizer; v) increase the efficiency of bullock use; and vi) increasethe output per manual worker" [4, p. 44].

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