Does Land Fragmentation Increase the Cost of Cultivation? Evidence from India

Deininger, Klaus; Monchuk, Daniel C.; Nagarajan, Hari K.; Singh, Sudhir

doi:10.1596/1813-9450-7085

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“…Manjunatha et al (2013) concluded that land fragmentation in India is positively and significantly associated with inefficiency. These findings confirmed those of Deininger et al (2014), who determined that fragmentation increases production costs and fosters the substitution of labour for machinery, especially for small and medium farmers in India. However, according to results from Rwanda, Ali et al (2015) argued that fragmentation tends to reduce the incidence of crop shocks and increases yields and productive efficiency; therefore, in Rwanda, interventions to reduce fragmentation may be ineffective or counterproductive.…”

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Land fragmentation and efforts to prevent it in Slovak legislation

Lazíková¹,

Rumanovská²,

Takáč³

et al. 2017

AGR ECON-CZECH

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Lazikova J., Rumanovska L., Takac I., Lazikova Z. (2017): Land fragmentation and eff orts to prevent it in Slovak legislation. Agric. Econ. -Czech, 63: 559-568.Abstract: Agricultural land represents a country's natural heritage. Th erefore, land protection is an issue that is the subject of various legislative measures, also including those that aff ect land fragmentation. Land fragmentation is a problem that hinders the eff ective use of land. In 1995, Slovak lawmakers adopted Law 180/1995 Coll., which prevents the fragmentation of land under a minimum size. Th e aim of this paper was to determine whether Slovak legislation concerning land fragmentation is eff ective and prevents this phenomenon. We compare the Slovak legislation with the legislations of other countries, and, further, we describe the existing situation with respect to land fragmentation in the individual regions of the country according to the requirements of Slovak legal regulations. Th e results include proposals for the potential amendment of the legal regulation to ensure the eff ective prevention of land fragmentation.

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Land fragmentation and efforts to prevent it in Slovak legislation

Lazíková¹,

Rumanovská²,

Takáč³

et al. 2017

AGR ECON-CZECH

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“…Different research results [11][12][13][14][15] indicated that land fragmentation is often considered as the source of inefficiencies in crop productivity which is associated with production costs due to inefficient resource allocation; suboptimal usage of factor inputs that lowers overall returns to land due to losses on extra travel time, wasted space along borders, inadequate monitoring, and the inability to use certain 2 Advances in Agriculture types of machinery; hindering agricultural modernization and making it costly to modify adverse effects by consolidation schemes; and so forth. Empirically, they estimated that land fragmentation constitutes 60% of the total cash cost of production.…”

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Effects of Land Fragmentation on Productivity in Northwestern Ethiopia

Alemu

Ayele

Berhanu

2017

Advances in Agriculture

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Generally, land fragmentation is a universal trait of all agricultural systems which affects farmland productivity and no one had documented a rural society where there was no land fragmentation. Hence, this study sought to ascertain the effects of land fragmentation on farmland productivity in the highland districts of Northwestern Ethiopia by using cross-sectional data collected from 240 respondents during 2015/16 production seasons and analyzed by using linear and Cobb-Douglass production functions. In land productivity model, 38% of variations in farmland productivity are explained by variations in independent variables including land fragmentation parameters. Average farmland size of 1.25 ha was obtained as minimum size that can generate minimum food and cash requirement of an average family of five adult equivalents. Hence, the government should come up with land use policy and population growth controlling program, which enables determining minimum economic farmland size, improving land productivity, and finding ways to strengthen off-farm activities and livestock sector to absorb more labor and enhance means of generating more income so as to decrease minimum farmland size required.

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“…For a discussion on whether land fragmentation increases the cost of cultivation in India seeDeininger et al (2017).4 There are serious concerns that surveys miss households at the very top end of the income distribution and hence underestimate inequality.…”

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Land Distribution, Income Generation and Inequality in India's Agricultural Sector

Chakravorty

Chandrasekhar

Naraparaju³

2019

Review of Income and Wealth

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This paper is a contribution to understanding income generation and inequality in India's agricultural sector. We analyze the National Sample Surveys of agriculture in 2003 and 2013 using descriptive and regression based methods, and estimate income inequality in the agricultural sector at the scale of the nation and its 17 largest states. We show that: (a) there are significant state‐level differences in the structures/patterns of income generation from agriculture, (b) there is a negative relationship between the amount of land owned by the household and share of wages in total income, (c) income inequality in India's agricultural sector is very high (Gini Coefficient of around 0.6 during the period), and (d) about half of the income inequality is explained by the household‐level variance in income from cultivation, which in turn is primarily dependent on variance in landownership.

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Does Land Fragmentation Increase the Cost of Cultivation? Evidence from India

Cited by 14 publications

References 7 publications

Land fragmentation and efforts to prevent it in Slovak legislation

Land fragmentation and efforts to prevent it in Slovak legislation

Effects of Land Fragmentation on Productivity in Northwestern Ethiopia

Land Distribution, Income Generation and Inequality in India's Agricultural Sector

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