Omar1984
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I think it will be a great decision .. the ppls criticizing here dont even have knowledge of agriculture. as my family belongs to rural area of sindh and my father have agriculture land dats y i know how beneficial it will be for pak.
see first by leasing or sellin 500000 acres pakistan will get approximatly 4-5 billion dollars as current price of land per acre in pak is about 5-6 lakhs for locals so to saudi they should atleast sell at 7-8 lakhs which will give abt 4.5 to 5 billion dollars and second they will also be giving operational cost to pak every year which will be a gud foreign exchange and in exchange pak will use its urea and pesticides and water and an other thing is that in current system of pak the yeild of crops is divided half to land owner and half to farmer so it means saudi will give price equivalent to half of the yield as it belong to farmer so in total they will just get the final product and they will still pay atleast 65% of the price of that product . on other hand it will provide job oppertunities as more farmers will be getting land to cultivate and also they will establish R&D to increase the output of crops which currently pakistan dont have and they are getting much lower output from best agriculture land they have.
If you haven't noticed, Pakistan's population is now 180 million which was just 165 million seven years ago.
Our population is growing fast and many live in agriculture land. What will happen when we keep selling acres of fertile agricultural land to the Saudis and our population becomes more than 200 million in the next 20 years?
Saudi Arabia's population is 27.6 million, and its size is approximately 2,150,000 square kilometres (830,000 sq mi) while Pakistan's population is 180 million, and its size is 881,912 square kilometeres (340,508 sq mi) (which includes Azad Kashmir).
Can we afford to sell acres of our fertile land when our own population is growing so rapidly in a country less than half the size of Saudi Arabia?
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