Family Farms Versus Large-Scale Farms in Rural Development

One of the main problems with which developing countries, as well as certain backward ares in developed countries are concerned today. Is the structure, pattern and organization of farm units. Should the pattern be that of the large scale administered farm or that of the family farm? Can the family farm compete with the large administered farm, at an output which will give its operator a standard of living not lees than the national average? How can rural systems be designed so as to provide social and economic services efficiently and with minimum cost? Israeli experience with a large mass of immigrants from various countries, especially of Afro-Asian extraction, has shown that the majority of immigrants preferred the family farm pattern, and so the solution was found in the "composite rural structure".