Open AccessEconomic Determinants Of Jute Production In India And Pakistan
Author(s) -
A. K. M. Ghulam Rabbani
Publication year - 1965
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/v5i2pp.191-228
Subject(s) - cash crop , crop , staple food , geography , production (economics) , agronomy , agricultural economics , agriculture , biology , economics , macroeconomics , archaeology
Most of the world's jute is produced within the predominantlyrice-growing areas of India and Pakistan. Rice is grown as the staplefood crop, while jute is the principal cash crop of the farmers of thejute belt. In Pakistan, acreage under jute normally accounts for 6 percent of the total sown area in the jute growing districts, while riceacreage extends to more than 80 per cent of the total. In thejute-growing districts of the Indian Union, although the proportion ofthe total sown land under rice is lower than in East Pakistan, riceacreage is normally 15 to 20 times as extensive as the total juteacreage. The scope for variation in jute cultivation is, therefore,potentially large in both India and Pakistan.