Relationship between Farm Size, Productivity, Input Demand, and Production Cost

Since the release of the first Farm Management survey data in the late fifties, probably the single issue most intensively investigated by the Indian economists has been, "the relationship between the farm size and farm productivity." Most of the major works dealing with this topic, published before 1968 have been critically reviewed by Bhagwati and Charkravarty (1969) and those published before 1974 have been discussed by Bharadwaj (1974). This unprecedented interest in the subject is quite natural, because a comparative analysis of the economics of small and large farms has important implications for policy issues like land ceiling and land redistribution.