Relationship Between Farm Size and Technical Efficiency in West Tennessee Agriculture
- 1 December 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics
- Vol. 14 (2) , 139-144
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0081305200024961
Abstract
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.Keywords
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