corporate farming.....

It is an artificial, faulty, large-scale mechanism that pursues crop production on factory lines. It employs chemical, industrial, and other methods that defy biological and environmental needs and realities. Unlike traditional farming, which produces for family food needs and local markets, corporate farming operates purely for the profits of its shareholders, especially through exports.

It has nothing to do with food security and mass job-creation. When land is rendered poisoned, degraded and no longer productive, the corporate operator cannot be held liable for damages. All the rural jobs of the entire world were lost due to large-scale agriculture and corporate farming. Even USA’s 7 millions family farms of 70 years ago, has dropped to less than a million today.

Most important reasons for rejecting corporate farming are -- takes away tens of millions of jobs away from locals; takes away food from their mouths; diverts scarce water and natural capital; and drastically reduces our own capacity to provide for ourselves.

All over the world, including the west, feudalism was the take-off point for concentration of capital and corporate agriculture. Pakistan’s agriculture has been in pre-corporate mode for the last 62 years.

Pakistan land identified for lease
To foreign investors:-
Punjab -- 6.631 million acres, mainly in Cholistan
Sindh -- 29,842 acres
Baluchistan – 100,000 acres
NWFP -- 3,449 acres of state land
More than 80% of Pakistani farmers own less than 5 acres.
Pakistani citizens need the 7 million acres offered for lease far
more than the foreigners do.

Pakistani governments once boasted about becoming the next Asian Tiger
When they discovered the success of Japan, South Korea and Taiwan arose from land reform, mass education, equal opportunities for women, rural up liftmen and infrastructure, credit for all, universal health care, and more,they stopped referring to the Tiger nations.

Pakistan extends no microcredit to peasant men, let alone the women.

According to the findings of ‘soil survey of Pakistan’, every day, approximately 500 acres of farmland swallowed up by urbanisation. i.e., 1 acre of fertile farmland lost every 5 minutes.

Productive land damaged by salinity is 100,000 acres per year.
More over, World Bank has throughout driven debt-creating export and large-scale agriculture. It has given loans for land-grabbing too.