Pakistan Social Sciences Review April-June 2021, Vol. 5, No. 2 [266-277] P-ISSN 2664-0422 O-ISSN 2664-0430 RESEARCH PAPER Contribution of Agri-Inputs to Rural Poverty Mitigation: A Village Study Muhammad Zahir Faridi* 1 Ali Azam 2 Maria Sajjad Khan 3 1. Professor, School of Economics, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Punjab, Pakistan 2. Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan 3. M. Phil Scholar, School of Economics, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Punjab, Pakistan PAPER INFO ABSTRACT Received: April 11, 2021 Accepted: May 01, 2021 Online: May 15, 2021 Poverty becomes a chronic issue in developing countries especially in rural areas. The present study is about rural poverty considering the role of agricultural inputs like fertilizers, land holding, live stocks and tractor. The study is based on the primary source of data. Two hundred fifty households were interviewed. Logistic regression technique is employed to explore the effects of Agri-related factors and other socio- economic factors on rural poverty. The study concludes that the variables like fertilizers, land holdings, use of tractor livestock, education of the farmer, good health status and farmer’s experience are very significant factors and reduce the farmer’s poverty. It is suggested that the government should provide the fertilizer at cheaper rate and facilitate use of tractor in cultivation. Keywords: Dependency Ratio, Health Status, Livestock, Size of Landholdings, Use of Tractor *Corresponding Author zahirfaridi@bzu. edu.pk Introduction These are certain factors that differentiate the economies with each other’s. The world’s economy is divided among developed nations, developing countries, underdeveloped economies, poor economies, and emerging economies. But there are some common issues prevailing in these poor and underdeveloped countries like poverty unemployment inflation, budget deficit, current deficit etc. Although intensity of these issues differ but more or less each country is facing these problems. Pakistan’s economy is neither developed nor poor. She is also facing the issues of unemployment, poverty, inflating, low growth rate, rising population etc. According to Rostow stages of growth, economies passe through the five stage of growth. The critical stage is takeoff, but Pakistan is passing through the stage of precondition for takeoff.