The Pricing of Agricultural Capital Inputs in PakistanPamphlet on the agricultural economics of agricultural development in Pakistan, comprising case studies of the pricing mechanisms affecting 3 capital goods in agriculture - examines pricing and distribution structures with respect to tractors, fertilizers and tube well installations, and discusses the implications of alternative government policies (price policy). References and statistical tables. |
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acres ADBP Agricultural Development Bank Agricultural Supply Corporation Ammonium approved areas Baluchistan barter agreement black marketing canal charges Chemical Consultants coir filter components countries Dawood-Hercules dealers Diammonium phosphate diesel engines domestic production Economic ESSO estimated farm farmers fertilizer distribution fertilizer imports financed firms higher IDA loan implements imported fertilizer increase industry installation irrigation Islamabad Karachi Lahore land Lyallpur marketing margins Massey-Ferguson Metric Tons Ministry Mohammad Multan nitrogenous nitrogenous fertilizers North-West Frontier Province November Number of Private number of tractors NWFP PASCO percent Peshawar phosphatic PIDC PIDE pig iron pipes plants principal agents private sector private tubewells problems programme provincialization pump Punjab purchase Quetta relatively retail price Rupees SASCO season selling price Sheikhupura shipments Source statistics strainer Sub-total subsidy survey Table tion total costs total number tractor importers tractors in Pakistan tubewell equipment types of fertilizers units urea Zetor