More sales and export of tractors key to success in agrarian economy.

Byline: Khalil Ahmed

Pakistan can lead world in modern farming practices by its cheaper tractor prices, making Mechanization could boost agrarian productivity to the hilt. Farmers across myriads of countries have adopted technology for ever-enhancing farm production besides ease and efficiency. Pakistan, being an agrarian economy, must have adapted its farming practices long ago, which could have altered the economic landscape. Farm mechanization in numerous countries globally has ensured stunning production resulting in tremendous economic activities which eventually leads to burgeoning exports and decelerating unemployment.

Between two and three million tractors are sold across the globe per annum primarily for the agriculture production. The sales of tractors soar with every passing day in the wake of ever-increasing demand by the progressive farmers across the world, however, the situation in Pakistan is still dismal, to say the least. China and India are the leading consumers of tractors globally, perhaps because of large population in both the countries and also by virtue of more awareness and lower prices along with the support for the poor farmers. Pakistan also announces support prices for some crops to help out the impoverished farming community, however, much is yet to be done to catch up with the rest of the world in terms of modern agrarian practices.

Use of tractors is still a luxury in many parts of Pakistan beyond the affordability of small farmers who find it tough to get loans from the banks. One must notice that the higher the agriculture production, the soaring the sales of the tractors in Pakistan, which indicates that Pakistani farmers are keen to mechanize farms which in reality is beyond their means. Pakistan's economy performs tremendously in general whenever there are bumper crops resulting in higher sales of tractors, fertilizer etc. Primarily, sugarcane, cotton, rice and wheat crops drive the agriculture sector of Pakistan. Mechanization of these crops could alter the economic landscape of Pakistan. Though there is no survival sans industrialization these days, however one needs to know that food security due to population explosion across the world has brought the agrarian sector to the limelight.

There is no denying that the prices and production cost of tractors in Pakistan is far more...