Size of Farm and Productivity
A Problem of Indian Peasant Agriculture
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9728358 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dipak Mazumdar (0000-0001-7975-2819, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1965 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 126 |
| Pages | 161 |
| Publication date | 1965-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Economica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-0427 • E-ISSN: 1468-0335 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2552546 |
| OpenAlex | W2314999161 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 43 |
One of the most interesting findings of the recent Farm Management Surveys in India has been that input per acre increases as the size of farms (measured in acres per holding) decreases. Associated with this increase in input there is an increase in output per acre, but a decrease in output per unit of input. This shows that although there is diminishing returns to input applied to an acre of land, the marginal returns continue to be positive over the range of observation. In this article, after analysing a little more closely the nature of the variations of input per acre (in Section I), an explanation is offered, based on simple assumptions about an agricultural system making use of family labour. Some implications of the analysis for policy are noted in the last section
Agricultural economics · Agricultural science · Agriculture · Business · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Peasant · Productivity · Agricultural Economics and Practices · Agricultural risk and resilience · Environmental Science · Livestock Management and Performance Improvement
Surplus Labour in Crop Production
Traditional agricultural capital formation
The puzzle of sharecropping
The current land reforms and peasant agriculture in Sri Lanka
Size, Productivity, and Returns to Scale
Human labour use with existing and prospective technologies in the semi‐arid tropics of South India
The Theory of Share-Cropping with Labour Market Dualism
Population and Savings
Food Needs and Work Capacity
Axiomatic Bargaining Theory
Poverty and the Environmental Resource Base
The Objects of Social Contracts
The Commodity Basis of Well‐Being
Well‐Being
Incentives and Development Policies
Analysis of Allocation Mechanisms When Nutrition Affects Productivity
Resource Allocation Mechanisms
Public Goods and Common‐Property Resources
Decentralization and Central Guidance
Net National Product in a Dynamic Economy
Land, Labour, Savings, and Credit
Real National Income as a Measure of General Well‐Being
Political Morality and the State
Uncertainty, Insurance, and Social Norms
The Realization of Well‐Being
Inequality, Malnutrition, and the Disfranchised
Food, Care, and Work
Adaptation to Undernourishment
Classical Utilitarianism in a Limited World
Fertility and Resources
Strategic Complementarities in Fertility Decisions
Households and Credit Restraints
An Inquiry into Well-Being and Destitution
A modified collective agriculture in rural growth-with-equity
Productivity and distribution under cropsharing tenancy
Close to the edge
Agriculture in recent development theory
Classical economics and agrarian reforms in underdeveloped areas
Cropsharing as a labour process, size of farm and supervision cost
Agriculture and New Farm Laws in India
Surplus agricole, division du travail et émergence des villes
The debate on size and productivity in developed and developing countries
Redistributive Land Reform
| Unique citing works | 43 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,81 |
| Citation span | 1973 - 2022 (50) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 36 |