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Title: | Farm Size-Farm Productivity Re-Examined: Evidence from Rural Egypt |
Author: | Dyer, Graham |
Year: | 1991 |
Periodical: | The Journal of Peasant Studies |
Volume: | 19 |
Issue: | 1 |
Period: | October |
Pages: | 59-72 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Egypt |
Subjects: | agricultural productivity farms Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Economics and Trade |
External link: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03066159108438471 |
Abstract: | A major component of the economic rationale for redistributive land reform is the empirically observed inverse relation between farm size and farm productivity. A major policy implication of this statistical relationship, frequently suggested, is for a small farm bias in agricultural development strategy. This article examines the hypothesis that while the above inverse relation may hold in the static context of a relatively backward agriculture, it breaks down with advancing levels of technological innovation. Using primary data from village surveys carried out in 1990 in the governorates of Qena and Giza, the author shows that this latter process has indeed been taking place in the context of rural Egypt. He points out some of the conceptual and methodological confusion of earlier studies dealing with the relationship between farm size and productivity in Egypt and reexamines the 1977 ILO survey (S. Radwan and E. Lee, 1986). Bibliogr., notes, ref. |