Agriculture Technologies, Energy Consumption and Agriculture Productivity: Evidence from Pakistan
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.61506/01.00554Keywords:
Agriculture technologies, energy consumption, Agriculture output, ADF and ARDLAbstract
The agriculture provides the food to human and animals. Pakistan is known as an agrarian economy. With the passage of time modernization in agriculture also happened along with other sectors of the economy. It is theoretically said that improved technology leads to increase in productivity. To check this theoretical statement, we examine the role of agriculture technologies and energy consumption on agriculture output in Pakistan. We applied time series data for the time span 1983-2019. To find the relationship between the variables ARDL model is employed. The result of the study shows that the relation between the dependent and independent variable exists in long run. It was found that the role of energy usage on agricultural output was positive and statistically significant. The effect of tractors and tube-wells on agriculture productivity is also positive and statistically significant. The impact of fertilizer was insignificant in the long run, because most of the farmers are not educated and they didn’t know the proper use of fertilizer. On the base of results, this study suggests that government may subsidize the tractors and tube-wells. Government can build more agriculture universities to increase the research in agriculture sector and enhance the education of farmers.
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