Author/Authors :
iqbal, muhammad amjed university of agriculture faisalabad - institute of agricultural and resource economics, Faisalabad, Pakistan , abbas, azhar university of agriculture faisalabad - institute of agricultural and resource economics, Faisalabad, Pakistan , ullah, raza university of agriculture faisalabad - institute of agricultural and resource economics, Faisalabad, Pakistan , ahmed, umar ijaz muhammad nawaz shareef university of agriculture multan, Multan, Pakistan , sher, ali nanjing agriculture university, China , akhtar, shoaib huazhong agricultural university - college of economics and management, Wuhan, China
Abstract :
Non-farm income is a major source of income along with farming for agricultural households. The present study is aimed at investigating the significance of non-farmincome infarmhousehold’spovertyand income inequality. Data were collected from 480 cotton growing respondents from six districts of Punjab province of Pakistan and Foster, Greer and Thorbecke (FGT) poverty index along with Gini coefficient were estimated to assess the impacts of non-farm income on household’s poverty and incomeinequality. Theresults indicated that non-farm income supports towards poverty reduction of households in the study area. However, it was observed that rise in non-farm income has slightly increased the income inequality among the selected households of Punjab Province.
Keywords :
Development , Rural returns , Productivity , Socioeconomic , Poverty index
