Stagnation in Foodgrain Production in Pakistan: Evidence, Causes and Prospects (Agricultural DEVELOPMENT‪)‬

Stagnation of foodgrain production in Pakistan in recent years is so manifest that it hardly needs any evidence. Nevertheless an examination of Table 1 reveals the deceleration of the growth rate of wheat production from 4.00 percent per annum during 1967-68-1979-80 to 2.65 percent per annum during the Eighties and to only 0.65 percent a year during 1988-89-1991-92. Table 2 shows that sometime in the late Seventies rice production also began to slow down and by the late Eighties, the growth in area, yield and production was totally arrested.