THE IMPACT OF PARTITIONING FARM SIZE ON COSTS AND PRODUCTIVITY OF WHEAT (BAGHDAD PROVINCE AS A CASE STUDY)

H. Nasser, F.; K. Jbara, O.

	THE IMPACT OF PARTITIONING FARM SIZE ON COSTS AND PRODUCTIVITY OF WHEAT (BAGHDAD PROVINCE AS A CASE STUDY)
The Iraqi Journal of Agricultural Science
Article 1, Volume 43, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 114-116
Authors
F. H. Nasser; O. K. Jbara
Abstract
Inspite of achieved big objectives of agrarian reform laws but these laws contain something negatives. The problem of the study is devoted to the consequences of agrarian reform laws which confiscated land from feudal lord and redistributed it to the peasants who were working on these land as sharecroppers . The process of land redistribution resulted in large numbers of landholders who did not have the necessary capital for land improvement and cultivation and they lost the benefit of economies of scale . This was reflected in the form of low quality and quantity of production . These small landownership were partitioned into tiny farms , between heirs, which were not viable economically . Data were collected by a questionnaire through stratified random sample for wheat in Baghdad province for the season 2009-2010 . The cultivated area were divided into six groups according to size and the sample size was 500 farmers . The objective of the study is to determine the least economic size of ownership and the relationship between productivity and farm size in the study sample .The study had arrived at some results the most important of which were that the least economic size was the one with the range of 7.75-12.5 ha. The optimum production in long run was about 39 tons and the optimum area was 8.5 acres which was supported by L.S.D. and DMRT tests . This means that there was proportional relationship between farm size and productivity for the farms with 12.5 ha area or less than that and there was inverse relationship for farms with size more than 12.5 ha. The study recommended the need to put some constraints that force the wheat farmers in central Iraq , the indivisibility of property owned or contracted for the size of 7.5 ha and that may cause partitioning of those properties to reduce the economic efficiency of these farms .

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