However, disillusion with the limited success of smallholder-based efforts to improve productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa (Collier and Dercon 2009) and the apparent success of Brazil in establishing a vibrant agricultural sector based on much larger farms have led some countries to view the development of large- scale mechanized farming as the path to modernization of the sector. Such concerns are reinforced by evidence that, in India, farms are too small and under-mechanized and that consolidation of land holdings could result in significant increases in productivity while at the same time contribute to industrialization by releasing potentially large amounts of labor.
