The document discusses corporate farming in Pakistan, including its rationale and models. Corporate farming aims to increase agricultural production and food security through the use of modern technologies. It can benefit Pakistan by improving yields and exports, but may also displace small farmers and increase rural migration. The government has identified over 6 million acres of land for corporate farming ventures with foreign investors showing interest from China, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE.

1. THE PROSPECTS OF CORPORATE FARMING IN PAKISTAN BY DR. MIDRAR UL HAQ

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3. FARMING TYPES Farming Cooperative Farming Family Farming Organic Farming Extensive Farming Intensive Farming Collective Farming Hi-tech Farming Tunnel Farming Contract Farming Corporate Farming Farming

5. DIFFERENCE AMONG THE THREE FARMING MODELS Production at Farm Level Market Access Middle Man Advanced Model of Farming (Corporate Farming) Improved Model (Contract Farming) Simple Model

7. FOOD SOVERIGNITY AND FOOD SECURITY ARE THE MAJOR ISSUES BECAUSE DURING THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS THE EXTRA ORDINARY INCREASE IN PRICES OF STAPLE COMMODITIES (WHEAT, RICE, CORN, SOYBEANS AND BARLEY) HAVE APPARENTLY COMPELLED MANY STATES OF THE WORLD INCLUDING OIL RICH ARAB MONARCHIES AND MIDDLE EASTERN COUNTRIES TO GROW THEIR OWN CROPS TO MANAGE SUPPLIES TO THEIR DOMESTIC CONSUMERS AND ALSO TO BUILD STOCKPILES FOR BAD TIMES.

9. is a business producing food or fiber products that is organized as a corporate entity for tax purposes. It is owned by stockholders and run by a board of directors. A family corporate farm is one where the principle stockholders are related by blood or marriage. A non-family corporate farm is one where the principle stockholders have no family relationships. Corporate Farming

10. VETICAL INTEGRATION OF DIFFERENT PROCESSES Corporate Farming

13. WHY PAKISTAN DECIDED TO GO FOR CORPORATE FARMING?

14. Rationale of the Corporate Farming Ordinance Halving Hunger by the Year 2015 United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)

15. RATIONALE OF CORPORATE FARMING As the small farmers of Pakistan are unable to adapt new technologies and cannot afford the costly inputs required to get optimum yield from new crop varieties

16. RATIONALE OF CORPORATE FARMING The idea of Corporate Farming was to cultivate all waste Lands in Pakistan by bringing foreign corporations, which Would cultivate these lands by modern technologies by Employing local labor, at attractive wages, train local People, pay local taxes, develop roads and communication net-works, and bring prosperity at nominal profits to themselves

17. CORPORATE FARMING ORDINANCE (CFO)-2001 Corporate Farming Ordinance (CFO) was passed in 2001 Under which listed corporations could lease land in the Country for 99 years, broken into two periods of 50 years And 49 years. Besides, the then government had identified 6.764 million acres of State lands for leasing to different corporations.

29. Land Distribution by Farm Size 100 100 Total 37.5 5.5 Sub total 8.2 0.2 ≥ 60 13.0 1.4 20 - < 60 16.3 3.9 10 - < 20 19.1 8.8 Sub total 19.1 8.8 5 - < 10 43.4 85.7 Sub total 27.9 28.1 2 - < 5 15.5 57.6 < 2 Percent of total farm area Percent of total no. of farms Size of farm (ha)

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