期刊名称：International Journal of Development and Sustainability
印刷版ISSN：2186-8662
出版年度：2018
卷号：7
期号：2
页码：755-763
出版社：International Society for Development and Sustainability (ISDS)
摘要：Land, plays an important role in the life of human beings; as a result, people don’t hesitate to scarify their lives, to save it from every obstacle. Land is a single source of livelihood. Pakistan is an agricultural country where 70% of its population directly and indirectly depends upon it. While its contribution to GDP is 19.8 percent, source of livelihood of 42.3% people and 44% exports are agricultural based. While it’s agricultural land is converted very quickly. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to find out causes of agriculture land conversion and its impacts on population of study area. Therefore, primary and secondary sources of data were used in this research. Primary data was collected by questioner while secondary data was taken from UN Population Division and Pakistan economic Survey. Different data sets from official records were used. According Hyderabad Development Authority (HDA) in last 20 years convert around 13,000 acres of pure agricultural land. Urbanization, overpopulation, water shortage, housing demands and land valuation is main reason behind agricultural land conversion in study area. So, there is need of land management system and land use policy required to save the conversion of agricultural land from concerned factors.
