{"product_id":"developing-sustainable-agriculture-in-pakistan-9780815366539","title":"Developing Sustainable Agriculture in Pakistan","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAgriculture plays a pivotal role in the economy and development of Pakistan providing food to consumers, raw materials to industries, and a market for industrial goods. Unfortunately, agricultural production is stagnant due to several barriers including a fixed cropping pattern, reliance on a few major crops, a narrow genetic pool, poor seed quality, and a changing climate. In addition, the high cost of production, weak phytosanitary compliance mechanisms, and a lack of cold chain facilities makes Pakistan agriculturally uncompetitive in export markets. Despite all these issues, agriculture is the primary industry in Pakistan and small farmers continue to dominate the business. Small farmers grow crops for subsistence under a fixed cropping pattern and a holistic approach is required to develop agriculture to improve the livelihoods of the rural populace.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book presents an exhaustive look at agriculture in Pakistan. Chapters provide critical analyses of present trends, ina\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEditors\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributors\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1 Planning for Sustainable Agriculture in Pakistan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIqrar Ahmad Khan and Muhammad Sarwar Khan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection I Natural Resources and Input Supplies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2 Land Use in Pakistan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMuhammad Tahir and Tasneem Khaliq\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3 Water: Issues and Remedies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAllah Bakhsh and Muhammad Adnan Shahid\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4 Rural Energy Solutions for Community Development\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnjum Munir, Allah Bakhsh, Abdul Ghafoor, Waseem Amjad, and Umar Farooq\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5 Environmental Degradation and Remedial Strategies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHaroon Rashid and Abdul Nasir\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6 Land Degradation: Problems and Remedies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eZahir Ahmad Zahir, Maqshoof Ahmad, and Ghulam Murtaza\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7 Canal Operation through Management Information System\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMuhammad Arshad, Riaz Ahmad, and Muhammad Usman\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 8 Precision Agriculture and ICT: Future Farming\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMuhammad Jehanzeb Masud Cheema, Hafiz Sultan Mahmood, M. Ahsan Latif, and Ahmad Kamal Nasir\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 9 Farm Services\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAsghar Ali, Sarfraz Hassan, and Abdul Ghafoor\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 10 Input Supplies: Production of Quality Seeds\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMuhammad Sarwar Khan and Faiz Ahmad Joyia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 11 Fertilizers and Gypsum\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJavaid Akhtar, Muhammad Yaseen, Muhammad Rashid, Ghulam Murtaza, and Muhammad Aamer Maqsood\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 12 Input Supplies: The Starring Role of Pesticide Inputs in Agricultural Productivity and Food Security\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMuhammad Jalal Arif, Muhammad Dildar Gogi, Ahmad Nawaz, Muhammad Sufyan, Rashad Rasool Khan, and Muhammad Arshad\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection II Crop Production and Health\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 13 Climate Change and Agriculture\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAshfaq Ahmad and Khalid Hussain\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 14 Treatment and Management of Low Quality Water for Irrigation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGhulam Murtaza, Muhammad Zia-ur-Rehman, Muhammad Aamer Maqsood, and Abdul Ghafoor\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 15 Stagnant Yields\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbdul Khaliq, Amir Shakeel, Muhammad Kashif, and Ghulam Mustafa\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 16 Crop Diversification\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShahzad M. A. Basra, Maqsood Hussain, Abdul Wahid, and Muhammad Farooq\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 17 High Value Horticultural Crops\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIftikhar Ahmad, Saeed Ahmad, Khurram Ziaf, M. Muzammil Jahangir, and Raheel Anwar\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 18 Forestry and Range Management in Pakistan: Present Potential and Way Forward\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMuhammad T. Siddiqui, Muhammad F. Nawaz, Rashid A. Khan, and Zahoor H. Khan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 19 Biotechnology and GM Crops\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMuhammad Sarwar Khan and Faiz Ahmad Joyia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 20 Plant Diseases of Major Crops and the Way Forward for Their Management\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMuhammad Amjad Ali, Amjad Abbas, Muhammad Atiq, Nasir Ahmad Rajput, Khalid Naveed, and Nazir Javed\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 21 Trends in Sustainable Management of Emerging Insect Pests\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMuhammad Jalal Arif, Waqas Wakil, Muhammad Dildar Gogi, Rashad Rasool Khan, Muhammad Arshad, Muhammad Sufyan, Ahmad Nawaz, Abid Ali, and Shahid Majeed\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 22 Status of Pesticides and Their Alternatives for Crop Sustainability in Pakistan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmjad Abbas, Muhammad Amjad Ali, Arbab Ahmad, Safdar Ali, Amer Habib, Luqman Amrao, and Abdul Rehman\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection III Animal Production and Health\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 23 Livestock Production: Status and Policy Options\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eM. Sajjad Khan, S. A. Bhatti, S. H. Raza, M. S. Rehman, and F. Hassan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 24 Poultry Production: Status, Issues, and Future Prospect\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePervez Akhtar, Umar Farooq, and M. Sajjad Khan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 25 Inland Fisheries and Aquaculture in Pakistan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMuhammad Javed and Khalid Abbas\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 26 Livestock and Poultry Health: Issues and Way Forward\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eM. Tariq Javed, Ghulam Muhammad, Nazir Ahmad, Laeeq Akbar Lodhi, Zafar Iqbal, Sajjad-ur-Rahman, Ahmad Din Anjum, Faqir Muhammad. Zafar Iqbal Qureshi, Muhammad Sohail Sajid, Muhammad Kashif Saleemi, Farah Deeba, Bilal Aslam, Aisha Khatoon, Muhammad Imran, Muhammad Imran Arshad, and Rizwan Aslam\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 27 Malnutrition in Children and One Health\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMian Kamran Sharif, Masood Sadiq Butt, Muhammad Kashif Saleemi, and Muhammad Imran Arshad\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection IV Agricultural Incentives for Farmers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 28 Gender Dimensions of Agriculture: Status, Trends, and Gap\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFarkhanda Anjum, Muhammad Iqbal Zafar, Kanwal Asghar, and Ayesha Riaz\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 29 Population Planning and Labor in Pakistan.............................................................. 635\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA. A. Maan, Izhar A. Khan, and N. Farah\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 30 Rural Poverty\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSaria Akhtar, Muhammad Iqbal Zafar, Shabbir Ahmad, and Naima Nawaz\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 31 Rural–Urban Migration\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eN. Farah, Izhar A. Khan, and A. A. Maan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 32 Rural Development\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTanvir Ali, Babar Shahbaz, Muhammad Iftikhtar, Ijaz Ashraf, Shoukat Ali, Ghazanfar Ali Khan, Aqeela Saghir, and Muhammad Saleem Mohsin\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 33 Outreach and Social Mobilization: Challenges and Opportunities\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMunir Ahmad, Babar Shahbaz, and Mahmood Ahmad Randhawa\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 34 Fiscal Policy in Agriculture\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTahira Sadaf, Muhammad Ashfaq, Rakhshanda Kousar, and Qaisar Abbas\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 35 Agricultural Credit and Cooperation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKhalid Mushtaq and M. Khalid Bashir\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 36 Agricultural Marketing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbdul Ghafoor and Hammad Badar\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 37 Regional Trade: Pakistan’s Perspective\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBurhan Ahmad, Abdul Ghafoor, and Asif Maqbool\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 38 Value Addition\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoazzam R. Khan, Aamir Shehzad, Aysha Sameen, and Masood Sadiq Butt\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CRC Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50577563287895,"sku":"9780815366539","price":199.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780815366539.jpg?v=1746095862","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/developing-sustainable-agriculture-in-pakistan-9780815366539","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}