Farm Size and Labour Use: Analysis and Policy

Abstract

The debate on 'size and productivity relations in Indian agriculture', which began with the publication of a note by ono of the authors of this paper eighteen years ago, was joined by the other author six years later. Since then, many other scholars, including the present authors, have contributed to the debate. The positions taken in the past by the present authors might have appeared shcarply divergent, though the two authors themselves find that such was not the case, and that a common statement is possible on many issues involved in the debate. The present airticle is an attempt at such a common statement of position.