Productivity growth and resource degradation in Pakistan's Punjab
Subtitle: a decomposition analysis
By: Mubarik Ali and Derek Byerlee.
Contributors: Byerlee, Derek.; World Bank. Rural Development Dept.
Series: Policy research working paper ;; 2480; Policy Research Working Papers ;; 2480.
Publisher: World Bank, Rural Development Dept.
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Agricultural productivity -- Pakistan.; Sustainable agriculture -- Pakistan.; Agricultural innovations -- Pakistan.; Soil exhaustion -- Pakistan.
Description: The introduction of green revolution technologies in wheat and rice production in Pakistan's Punjab province reversed the country's food crisis and stimulated rapid agricultural and economic growth. But resource degradation through intensification, monocropping, and mismanagement of water resources has offset much of the productivity effect of technological change.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 27-30).
Title from title screen as viewed on Oct. 03, 2002.
"November 2000"--Cover.
Also available in print.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.