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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.
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