COMPARATIVE STUDY ON THE EFFICIENCY OF ARABLE LAND PROTECTION POLICIES OF CHINA AND PAKISTAN: A SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT LESSON FOR PAKISTAN

Abstract

Land is the basic resource for human society; which constant in nature and not an increasing resource. Usually, arable land is used for residential, industrial, municipal, and civilization purposes which tends to affect agricultural productivity. The aim of this study is to investigate the efficiency of arable land protection policies of China and Pakistan, learning lesson for sustainable development. Time series data of arable land hectares per person, percentage of agricultural GDP growth rate, percentage of industrial GDP growth rate, percentage of forest area, and urban population annual growth rate were used to elaborate empirical results. The study result shows that in China the percentage industrial GDP growth rate and percentage of agricultural GDP growth rate have a positive and significant relationship with arable land hectares per person similarly, the land protection policies have a positive and significant relationship with arable land hectares per person. In Pakistan, findings show that there is no arable land protection policies by the government. The GDP growth rate and urban population growth rate have a positive relationship with arable land hectares per person, due to fellow land is utilizing time by time for cultivation purposes. Moreover, results show there was a breakpoint in trend of arable land loss in China from 1991, due to development of arable land protection policies of China, which revels that the arable land protection policies are efficient to control loss of arable land. The study giving a lesson to Pakistan for sustainable development with control to land loss.