This study shows that most share-croppers are small farmers. There is some evidence that technical efficiency is lower on share-cropping farms. There is significant allocative inefficiency on both share-cropping and owner-operated farms, but neither group has definite advantage in allocating...

Salam [I8] raised a number of questions about my paper, and these can be briefly summarized here. (1) Inadequate description of sample. (2) Treatment of irrigated and unirrigated parts of a farm under same management as separate subfarms is questionable. (3) What prices have been used for farm...