Ans: Agricultural Reforms:
Many steps were taken after independence for the improvement of
agricultural sector. Provisional governments made policies to safeguard the
tenants oghts, as well as for the improvement of tenant-landions
relationship. The federal governments introduced reforms in years 195
1958, 1872 and 1897. Under all these reforms maximum limit of lang
holding was fixed. Following are the other objectives of these reforms:
Enhance agricultural production
Expand employment opportunities, especially in the rural areas.
improve relationship between the tenant and the landowner.
Equitable distribution of the agricultural produce.
improve rural population’s standard of living.
Under 1972 agricultural reforms maximum limit of land-holding was fixed at
150 acres inigated and 300 acres non-irrigated (barani). Excess land was
taken over by the govemment and allotted to the landless tenants, its price
was recovered in easy installments. Water-rate (aabiyana) and land revenue
(maalia) were waived off for small land holdings. In 1993 the government
distributed millions of acres of land to the landless haries in the kachcha areas
of Sindh. Main target of the 1997 reforms was to achieve self-reliance in wheat
An amount of Rs 15 billion was advanced to the tenants as agricultural loans.