A smaller and relatively young district of little less than 600,000 acres, Lodhran was carved out of Multan in 1991. With Multan turning more of a cosmopolitan urban and commercial centre in the last three decades, its offspring preferred to stay as a parental extension: socially conservative, culturally traditional and predominantly agricultural.
With industry almost non-existent, agriculture is the way of life for the district dwellers — all its 600,000 acres are cultivated and divided into smallholdings for two reasons.
The massive inflow of settlers from other parts of the country during the last century was never expected to purchase bigger chunks of land. Big local, traditional and politically influential land-owning families saw their heritage divided during the same period and most of them have lost the feudal lustre. The district is thus more of a social relief in the otherwise feudal belt of South Punjab.