Policy Interventions in Olive Sector Development Approach in Punjab.
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2018
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University of Management and Technology
Abstract
The underlying argument that develops the premise for this research study is
that ‘Olive' is a sector with great potential for attributing to the socio-economic uplift
and employment generation in rural economies of the marginalized areas on one end,
while its critical ability to replace some volumes of the imported oil and dent the
towering edible oil import bill to some extent, on the other. The sector has recently
received government's renewed attention and through this research study, an attempt
has been made to investigate Government of Pakistan's ‘Sector Development
Approach' in the Potohar Region, which has recently been declared as the ‘Olive
Valley' of the country. Are the policies planned, developed and ‘ve been implemented
to give the sector an enabling environment to grow, in line with the global best
practices, or is just another repackaging of ‘one size fit all' policy approach, which
impeded the growth prospective of many sectors to the lowest levels?
This study will investigate the impact of public sector's development
interventions in the olive sector, through evaluating its current policies and collecting
stakeholder's opinion about development of olive sector in the Potohar region.
Focus Group Discussions and Interviews will be conducted with stakeholders
including the public-sector policy makers, private sector entrepreneurs, small farmers,
representatives of the academia and research institutions and other relevant player of
the olive value chain, to analyze the impact of current policy regime on the sector
development. It would lead us to the main findings of the thesis i.e., highlighting
policy interventions for sector development and their impact in olive sector of Punjab
and will conclude on set of recommendations to harness true and full socio-economic
potential of the olive sector in Pakistan.
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Literature review revealed that the lack of effective regulatory framework,
ineffective institutional structure to enforce and monitor regulations and standards,
conventional mindset of private sector to operate businesses, unawareness of farmers
about good agriculture practices, and poor capacity of officials working in the public
sector are some of the major causes which delayed the development paradigm of
agriculture sector in the country (Malik et al, 2016). It is easily understandable that
largely fragmented nature of the olive farming could have magnified all these factors
in the sector under observation, and may have defy the impact, government would
like to create through its interventions. That's what needs to be explored.
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Supervised by: Prof. Rahat ul Ain
Keywords
Socio-economic, Marginalized areas, Sector Development Approach, Sectors to the lowest levels