@article{Otsuka:212721,
      recid = {212721},
      author = {Otsuka, Keijiro and Liu, Yanyan and Yamauchi, Futoshi},
      title = {The Future of Small Farms in Asia},
      address = {2015},
      number = {1008-2016-79986},
      pages = {49},
      year = {2015},
      abstract = {Farms throughout Asia are predominantly small. By nature,  small farms use labour-intensive production methods. The  question arises as to the viability of small farms in the  face of the rapidly increasing wage rate in most Asian  countries. There is also indication that the production  efficiency of small farms has declined relative to large  farms in many other Asian economies, indicating the  increasing disadvantage of small farms in Asia. Therefore,  this study argues that unless new policy measures are taken  to expand farm size, Asia as a whole is likely to lose  comparative advantage in agriculture and become an importer  of food grains in the future},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/212721},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.212721},
}