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The study was conducted in the Central Punjab for the year 2009-10. The main objective was to find out some strategies to pick up small farmers from their poverty status. For this purpose, a sample of 300 respondents was taken from districts Jhang, Faisalabad and T. T Singh for final data collection. Seven strategies," enhanced level of urea application to cash crops (S1), the enhanced level of DAP to cash crops ($2), enhanced urea to cash crops plus livestock units ($3), addition of hybrid tomato phts livestock units ($4). enhanced DAP plus livestock units ($5) and addition of cut flowers plus livestock units ($6) were practiced through the LP Model. The objective values obtained through LP model with S1 to $3 strategies indicate that these have reduced the poverty gap up to 48%, 34% and 20%, respectively. While $4 and $5 both were successful but $5's impact was greater than $4. Through $6 the gap remained only 3.95 percent. Thus, the strategy of addition of short duration crops like hybrid tomato and productive live stock units were the agri-enterprises and their combination can reduce the small farmer's poverty successfully. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]