Open AccessImpact of Optimal Cropping Patterns on Incomes in a Punjab District
Author(s) -
M. A. Hameed Chaudhry
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
pakistan development review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.154
H-Index - 26
ISSN - 0030-9729
DOI - 10.30541/v15i2pp.218-221
Subject(s) - cropping , agriculture , order (exchange) , agricultural economics , economics , business , agricultural science , geography , environmental science , archaeology , finance
To improve farm incomes in developing countries, the foremostquestion that the farmer must address himself to is: what croppingpattern best uses the fixed resources in order to get the highestreturns? During the last decade, the agricultural economists have showngreat interest in applying the tools of linear programming to individualfarms. Most of the studies conducted elsewhere have shown that, underexisting cropping pattern, farm resources were not being utilizedoptimally on the small farms.[l, 4]. We conducted a survey in thecanal-irrigated areas of the Punjab province of Pakistan1 to investigateinto the same problem. This short note aims at identifying the opti¬malcropping pattern and to estimate the increase in farm incomes as aresult of a switch towards it on the sampled farms.