Power to the People — Free Justice — Public Accountability
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Ijtihad
Manifesto Theme 04

Agriculture & Industry Policy

The party's published proposals on land stewardship, peasant welfare, cooperative farming, industrial relocation, and labor safeguards as documented in party literature.

Party Manifesto: Points 6 & 7 (Urdu Edition, pp. 15–19) / pp. 20, 41–43 (English Translation Compilation)
Documented Sectoral Theses

The Six Tenets of Agrarian & Industrial Policy

Preserved across pages 20 and 41 to 43 of the official English compilation, the movement outlines six key structural policies for agriculture, industry, and labor:

01Manifesto (English Translation Compilation), p. 43

Party's Documented Principle of Land Stewardship and Cultivation

The party documents land as a divine trust that must remain actively productive. Under its published policy, agricultural land left untilled for three consecutive years becomes subject to state forfeiture of cultivation rights and reallocation to active peasants.

Documented Details:

  • Principle that land ownership is bound to productive agricultural stewardship.
  • Mandatory forfeiture of cultivation rights for arable land left fallow for three consecutive years without valid cause.
  • Reallocation of uncultivated land to landless farmers willing to bring it under tillage.
02Manifesto (English Translation Compilation), p. 43

Party's Documented Protection of Smallholders from Fragmentation

To address the unviable subdivision of small agricultural plots through inheritance, the manifesto proposes minimum economic farm unit limits and state mechanisms to allow co-heirs to consolidate holdings at market rates or acquire state farmland.

Documented Details:

  • Establishment of minimum economic farm unit thresholds to prevent unproductive micro-fragmentation.
  • Right of first purchase for co-heirs at market rates to keep agricultural units viable and integrated.
  • State allotment of public arable land to small farming families to maintain economically viable cultivation units.
03Manifesto (English Translation Compilation), p. 43

Party's Documented Model of Cooperative Farming

The party proposes state-supported voluntary cooperative farming societies where smallholders pool land while retaining dividend shares proportional to their contributed holdings, enabling collective mechanization and cost reduction.

Documented Details:

  • Establishment of government-supported group farming cooperatives.
  • Farmer dividend shares distributed strictly in proportion to land contributed.
  • Collective access to modern agricultural equipment, tube-wells, certified seeds, and fertilizers.
04Manifesto (English Translation Compilation), p. 43

Party's Documented Policy on Farmer Retirement Pensions

The manifesto proposes that lifelong agricultural cultivators who lose physical capacity to till land due to old age should receive a monthly state retirement pension upon relinquishing active cultivation, establishing social security parity with civil servants.

Documented Details:

  • Creation of a state-funded agricultural pension for elderly farmers.
  • Eligibility based on verified physical inability to continue active cultivation due to advanced age.
  • Dignified social protection preventing elderly peasants from falling into destitution.
05Manifesto (English Translation Compilation), pp. 20, 43

Party's Documented Industrial Relocation & Worker Profit Shares

To prevent the encroachment of industrial sprawl on fertile agricultural land, the party proposes locating new industrial zones on barren, mountainous, or unproductive tracts, alongside statutory profit-sharing and equity limits for industrial laborers.

Documented Details:

  • Preferential zoning of factories and industrial zones on non-agricultural, barren, or mountainous tracts.
  • Promotion of vertical urban residential construction to curb horizontal urban sprawl onto fertile farmlands.
  • Statutory determination of workers' equity and profit shares in industrial and commercial enterprises.
06Manifesto (English Translation Compilation), pp. 20, 41–42

Party's Documented Standards on Labor Protection & Environment

The policy mandates employer-funded disability and accident insurance for all workers, statutory living wages, nationwide industrial pollution standards, tree afforestation drives, and prioritization of public transit and cycling over luxury vehicular infrastructure.

Documented Details:

  • Mandatory employer-funded insurance against workplace injury or loss of working capacity.
  • Enforcement of workplace safety standards and fair wage determination based on productivity.
  • Strict regulation of industrial air and noise pollution, nationwide tree planting, and encouragement of cycling and public transport.
Authentic Source Excerpts

Direct Passages from Agrarian & Industrial Chapters

Unedited excerpts documenting the party's published proposals on agriculture, industry, and labor:

“Land is a gift of God and we can avail ourselves of it only by working hard. Otherwise, if the land is not being tilled, it would be given to another on the condition of tilling. Thus, if a person does not till his land for three consecutive years, he would be deprived of the right of ownership of that farm land.”

Party Manifesto (English Translation Compilation), p. 43

“Just as a government servant takes pension after becoming retired so as a farmer, who has lost his ability of practical / physical cultivation on account of old age, would receive pension from the government after abdicating his ownership of the land.”

Party Manifesto (English Translation Compilation), p. 43

“The institution will ensure the protection of the wages of the private labourers and workers, that is, it will safeguard the rights of the labour-class to keep good relationships established between the employers and employees.”

Party Manifesto (English Translation Compilation), p. 20
Worker Tools & Golden Wheat Sheaves
Symbolic Identity

Institutional Heraldry: Agrarian & Labor Emblem

Worker Tools & Golden Wheat Sheaves

The official party emblem pairs golden wheat sheaves—representing the agrarian foundation of Pakistan and the dignity of the peasant cultivator—with cross-mounted industrial tools (hand saw, machinist hammer, farming pickaxe, and drill), symbolizing the movement's solidarity with the working and productive classes.

Official Crest • Golden Wheat & Artisan Tools Heraldry