Farm size, irrigation and intensity land use in Indian agriculture

In: Artha vijñāna: journal of the Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics

Abstract

Rising land productivity as the only solid and enduring basis for Indian agriculture to achieve a continuous increase in production. Farm management studies for the 50s and 60s, conducted for a few states, provided evidence for an inverse relationship between farm size and cropping intensity. The authors explore whether, after the arrival of the green revolution, there exists an inverse farm size-cropping intensity relationship for Indian agriculture as a whole. (DÜI-Sen)