Taimoor Khalid

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The present study deals with the role of pre-disposing environmental factors in agricultural land conversion. A quantitative research design with structured questionnaire was adopted to gather information from a sample of 375 households through simple random sampling technique. Further the data was analyzed in terms of descriptive and inferential statistics through SPSS. At descriptive analysis simple frequencies and percentages distributions was carried out, where at bivariate and multivariate analysis Chi-square and Tau-c is a directional test was adopted to found the association between the study variables. The results disclosed that due to low agricultural productivity farmers enforce to convert their land for other purpose (P = 0.000; T c = 0.259), growth in population creates immense pressure on land conversion (P = 0.000; T c = 0.091), growth in population creates immense pressure on land conversion (P = 0.000; T c = 0.091), infertility of agricultural land is responsible for low productivity (P = 0.000; T c = 0.140) with relation to agricultural land conversion. Additionally, at multivariate analysis the association between free-disposing environmental factors and agricultural land conversion while controlling gender of the respondents was found highly significant (P = 0.000) and positive (T c = 0.292). Lastly, the association between free-disposing environmental factors with agricultural land conversion while controlling gender of the respondent was found significant (P = 0.000) and positive (T c = 0.292). Implementation of agricultural land policies and laws in their true spirit, empowerment and equipping agricultural staff, community empowerment and involvement in agricultural land governance, government interventions in land policies is needed to preserve agricultural lands, a strong system of monitoring and apprehension and punishment of illegitimate practices were some of the recommendations in light of the study.