Does Land Fragmentation Increase the Cost of Cultivation?
To appreciate overall impacts of fragmentation, underlying channels, and potential heterogeneity by holding size, we distinguish average fragment size and mean inter-fragment distance as two aspects of this phenomenon. Estimating a cost function with associated input demand equations on a large nationally representative Indian survey, robust to endogeneity, suggests that fragmentation’s main impact is to reduce mean plot size below the threshold for mechanization. Higher inter-fragment distances increase costs for larger holdings, but by a much smaller magnitude. Implications as to when programs to consolidate holdings may make sense and ways to ensure their sustainability are discussed.
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| Formato: | Journal Article biblioteca |
| Idioma: | en_US |
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Taylor and Francis
2016-04-28
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| Materias: | fragmentation, inheritance, land ownership, agricultural productivity, scale economies, endogeneity, |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24263 |
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