Farm Efficiency under Semi-Feudalism-A Critique of Marginalist Theories and Some Marxist Formulations

Are small farmers more efficient than large ones? Are 'capitalist' farms cultivated in the main by hired labourers less efficient than family farms working with the help of family labour? Does crop- sharing depress productivity? These are the questions which we hope to answer in a specific historic context characterised by technological backwardness and massive unemployment, as one finds in West Bengal and most other parts of India.