Title: Productivity growth and resource degradation in Pakistan's Punjab
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.
Subjects: Agricultural innovations, Agricultural productivity, Soil exhaustion, Sustainable agriculture
Places: Pakistan