Agrarian Transition in sind: An Analysis of Interlinked Rural Factor Markets (Agricultural POLICY AND Development) (Report‪)‬

1. INTRODUCTION The process of change in the tenurial structure of Punjab's agriculture from sharecropping tenancy to an owner-cultivation with a wage-labour system of production has been well-documented in [Alavi (1976); Harold (1980); Hussain (1980); Khan (1981); Khan (1983), and Mahmood (1977)]. It has been argued that this has come about through the induction of the new technologies (firstly in the form of tubewell irrigation and subsequently followed by the biological and mechanical technologies) associated with the "Green Revolution".