Agriculture Productivity and Farm Size in India

Dr. Ashish Kumar Rai

Abstract: The Farm Management Studies conducted by the Ministry of Food and Agriculture in certain selected regions of India in the mid-1950s clearly revealed that output per acre declined with the increase in the size of holding. Several explanations have been offered for this inverse relationship between farm size and output per acre.

Keywords: Labour-Based Explanation, Fertility-Based Explanation, Tenancy-Based Explanation, Management-Based Explanation