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Relationship Between Farm Size and Technical Efficiency in West Tennessee Agriculture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2015

Faqir Singh Bagi
Faqir Singh Bagi*
Affiliation:
Department of Rural Development, Tennessee State University
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There has been persistent interest in the issues relating to farm size and survival of family farms since the beginning of agricultural economics as a discipline. Since the early 1950s, the number of farms has been decreasing and the average farm size has been increasing.

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Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 14 , Issue 2 , December 1982 , pp. 139 - 144
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Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1982

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