Asjad Tariq

University of Western Australia | UWA · School of Agriculture and Resource Economics

This paper investigates the factors that influence the adoption of laser land leveler and its impact on groundwater usage in the Punjab province of Pakistan. A farm household survey of 504 agriculture producers was conducted in 2019. A discrete‐time duration model is used to investigate factors influencing the speed of adoption and an endogenous sw...

Soil salinization is a serious environmental problem in arid and semi-arid regions, affecting crop yields and jeopardizing the food security of affected households. A common prescription to ameliorate salt-affected soils is the application of gypsum. However, little is known about the factors that motivate land managers to adopt gypsum and its like...

Governments and international donors are actively promoting laser-land leveller (LLL) technology to produce environmental benefits (i.e., avoid soil salinity, minimize soil erosion risk, and groundwater security) that could lead to sustainable agricultural production and averting land degradation. We investigate the adoption process of laser-land l...

Modernisation of the agricultural and industrial sectors in Pakistan over the last thirty years, increased village electrification, increasing use of energy appliances by domestic users, and the usage of modern technology in all sectors, caused energy demand to increase more rapidly than energy supply. Sources of energy vary between urban and rural...

Inclusive agricultural growth is important for overall economic growth and particularly critical for rural socioeconomic stability and poverty reduction in Pakistan. The majority of Pakistan's population and 44 percent of the overall labour force are dependent upon agriculture which only accounts for a little over 20 percent of national GDP. The pa...

Pakistan’s agriculture sector is crucial because it is responsible for providing food, shelter, and clothing to a massive population of 180 million people which is growing at a rate of 2 percent per annum. Land is a valuable asset and a symbol of prestige for the rural population in Pakistan. According to the recent Pakistan Economic Survey of 2013...

This paper presents the projections of future demand and supply for these two main cereals for 2010, 2015, 2020, 2025, and 2030. For projecting household demand, the Almost Ideal Demand System (LA-AIDS) is estimated for eight food items using the data of nationally representative household survey. The results are used to project the household deman...

The study was conducted to investigate the impact of sewage water application along with other factors on the cauliflower yield in Punjab by using Cobb-Douglas production type function. Data was collected from 65 cauliflower growers form peri-urban areas of Faisalabad district in 2010. Results of the analysis showed that variables land preparation,...

For many decades, pesticide (insecticide, fungicide and weedicide) and fertilizers have played an imperative role in improving agricultural productivity, but their adverse affects on the sustainability of natural resources (environment and ground water etc) has been largely ignored. The present study attempts to estimate the environmental efficienc...