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Thapa, Sridhar. |
This paper examines the farm size and productivity relationship using data from Nepalese mid hills. The household data used has been drawn from a survey conducted by the author and financed by the Norwegian University of Life Science. The analysis uses models both allowing for and not allowing for village dummies(as cluster controls), the ratio of irrigated land (as proxy for land quality), and other socio-economic variables such as households, belonging to caste groups, and family size (as proxy for access to resources). The result supported the almost âstylized factâ of inverse relationship (IR) between farm size and output per hectare. Total cash input use and labour hours per hectare were found to be higher on small farms. The findings of... |
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Inverse relationship; Farm size; Productivity; Returns to scale; Nepal; Q15; O13; Farm Management. |
Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/7940 |
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