Agriculture: Impetus for corporate farming

Countries that introduced land reforms to unleash corporate and cooperative farming potential based on the latest technologies ushered in an agricultural revolution.

With the transformation in the mode of production, not only the yield per acre of crops went up at an unprecedented pace, but a huge middle class emerged, widening prosperity in the countryside.

High economic growth in regional countries such as China, India and Bangladesh (BD) can be explained by timely land reforms. (Radical land reforms were carried out in BD in the early 1950s when it was a part of Pakistan).

The mild land reforms during former President Mohammad Ayub Khan’s tenure and in its first phase introduced by former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the landed aristocracy managed to protect the size of its landholdings substantially.