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Among the policy measures used by governments of less
developed countries in their effort to promote economic development,
land reform occupies a place of great importance. In West Pakistan, the
area under discussion in this paper, land and tenancy reform laws aimed
at changing the existing agrarian structure have been enacted
periodically before as well as after partition by the governments of the
formerly individual provinces (Punjab, NWFP, Sind)1. In January 1959,
shortly after the present government came to power, a land reform law
covering the entire province of West Pakistan was passed. It introduced
a laige number of reform measures designed to bring about a more
equitable distribution of land ownership rights as well as to provide
the basis for a gradual increase in the productive capacity of the
agricultural sector through appropriate tenancy reforms2. No systematic
studies are available which show to what extent and how successfully the
earlier laws have been implemented. As regards the law presently in
force it might still be too early to try to assess the impact on
agricultural production or to determine the number of rural people and
agricultural holdings which have been actually affected. Nevertheless,
it seems worthwhile to study some of the data on size of holdings and
land fragmenta-

In 1961 during the state visit by President Mohammad Ayub Khan
to the United States, the two Presidents discussed the problem of
waterlogging and salinity and its implications for economic development
in Pakistan. As a result of this meeting, a Panel of U.S. experts was
assembled to study the problem. This Panel was composed of specialists
in agriculture, hydrology, engineering and social sciences; its chairman
was Dr. Roger Revelle, Science Adviser to the United States Secretary of
the Interior. The Panel's Report1 was submitted to the President of
Pakistan in September 1962, with the comment that it should be
considered as being still in preliminary draft form and subject to
continuing revisions as comments from other experts in the field are
received. The present article is based on this preliminary version of
the Revelle Report. While there may be changes in detail, we have
assumed that the broad conclusions embodied in the Report will remain
unchanged.