Conflict of Social and Individual Objectives in Peasant Farming in Asia and Alternative-Strategies of Agricultural Development

Peasant Farming in Asia and Alternative Strategies of Agricultural Development N K Sarkar Starting from the finding of recent sample surveys of Asian agriculture that gross output per acre Reclines at first and then rises again as farm size increases, an attempt is made in this paper, first, to build up a theory of social conflict generated by recent technological innovations in agriculture and then to develop a strategy of agricultural development in Asia which would minimise that conflict and cause the least dislocation and human suffering.