The result is a marginal life, actually mere survival through a life span of 58 years. There is, of course, great disparity and wide variation in this regard within the country. Urban dwellers are much better off in contrast to the vast majority, over 70 percent, who live in the rural areas. Producing enough to eat would mean modernizing the methods of cultivation. Pakistan's agriculture is primitive, employing antiquated methods of production.
Modern technology has to be learned and implemented for practical results.
It needs to be accompanied with building an industrial infrastructure. Emphasis on the implementation of technology in agriculture could unleash forces for the reform of the feudal system. Confrontation with feudalism, the curse of the nation, is inevitable. That is why the process of change has to begin in the countryside with food production as the goal. Elections to local councils are a likely avenue for the dilution of the power of the lords.