Abstract: This article is an examination of the relationship between farm size and farm productivity in developing countries. The vast majority of this research supports the existence of an inverse farm size-productivity relationship, i.e., the smaller the farm the more productive it is per unit of land. Farm productivity is typically measured as yields per land unit or gross output value per land unit. Numerous studies of agriculture in developing countries have noted the existence of this Inverse Relationship (IR). A variety of causes have been proposed to explain this inverse farm size productivity relationship. These include imperfections in land, labor and capital markets, labor dualism, the effects of uncertainty on farmer decisions, and land quality differences among farms of different sizes. To conclude, the productivity is related to a variety of factors like crop mix, input use, labour employed, management of crop-related activities etc. in......
key factors and establishing the relation between a composite index of such factors and farm productivity
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