Open AccessMarketable Surplus Function: A Study of the Behaviour of West Pakistan Farmers
Author(s) -
Azizur Rahman Khan,
Abdur Chowdhury
Publication year - 1962
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/v2i3pp.354-376
Subject(s) - immediacy , production (economics) , consumption (sociology) , subsistence agriculture , economics , economic shortage , function (biology) , relaxation (psychology) , microeconomics , agriculture , sociology , geography , government (linguistics) , social science , philosophy , linguistics , epistemology , evolutionary biology , biology , psychology , social psychology , archaeology
Food shortages have become a harassing problem for Pakistan.Though foodgrains, received under the provision of United States PublicLaw 480, have reduced the immediacy of the problem considerably, it isnecessary that this breathing space provided by aid be used tounderstand the nature and magnitude of the problem and to attemptsolutions of it. One aspect of the problem is, of course, the generalinadequacy of the total production to meet the overall foodrequirements. The general concern about increasing the volume of totalproduction, and the whole range of policies directed towards this,spotlight one facet of the problem. The other aspect is the release fromsubsistence consumption of increasing amounts of food output for themarket as more and more people are transferred to the urban centres andmade dependent on the market. Success in solving the first aspect of theproblem may not necessarily lead to any relaxation of thesecond.