bottlenecks for the growth of agriculture in Bihar, India. The crop productivity of tiny landholders can be increased through … farm size and per hectare agricultural productivity in India. It was subsequently argued that the higher productivity of …, National Sample Survey data show that small holdings in Indian agriculture still exhibit a higher productivity than large …

segments of the population.In India, Bihar is amongst the poorest states with poverty incidence of 41.4 per cent. Per capita … net domestic product has been estimated to be $ 446 for Bihar which is about one –third of the corresponding national … average ($ 1220) and less than one-fourth of Haryana ($ 2052), one of the richest states in India (Government of Bihar, 2011 …

Technology adoption has been the main obstacle in realizing agricultural potential in the country in general and Bihar … land emerged as main constraint to adoption of modern horticultural technology in Bihar. While analyzing use of modern … relationship between size of farm and adoption of modern varieties of seeds in Bihar. Inadequate staff, infrequent supervision and …

This paper shows that using yields may not be informative of the relationship between farm size and productivity in the … context of small-scale farming. This occurs because, in addition to productivity, yields pick up size-dependent market … distortions and decreasing returns to scale. As a result, a positive relationship between farm productivity and land size may turn …

general equilibrium model, this paper argues that climate change will negatively affect agricultural productivity in Africa …

The objective of this paper was to examine the relationship between farm size and agricultural productivity using data … probably the post market liberalization period (1990s) became characterized by an inverse farm size productivity relationship … the land poor households would possibly raise total output thorough productivity gains. …

This study examines the relationship between farm size and productivity in U.S. agriculture during 1982-92. A … nonparametric regression method is applied to detect ex-post geographical patterns in changes in farm size and productivity. The … estimations show that (i) in 1982 productivity per acre was high in the East, West, and South, modest in the middle part of the U …

This paper shows that using yields may not be informative of the relationship between farm size and productivity in the … context of small-scale farming. This occurs because, in addition to productivity, yields pick up size-dependent market … distortions and decreasing returns to scale. As a result, a positive relationship between farm productivity and land size may turn …

in Brazil's agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) growth, which has accelerated at one of the world's fastest …

suggests that an inverse relationship between productivity and farm size does not hold. The relationship between farm size and …