SCALE FACTOR 13 divergent, though the two authors themselves find that such was not the case, and that a common statement is possible on many issues involved in the debate."4 A review of the studies of the past indicates that the major issues debated have been the following: i) Is there any identifiable relationship between size of farms and productivity? ii) Do production processes of farms vary with variations in the scale of operations? iii) If they do, is it because of technological reasons or because of the differences in the market conditions that farms of different sizes confront? iv) In relation to iii) are the differences between farms of different sizes related to size as such, or to different systems of farming, in particular between farming based primarily on family labour and farming based on wage labour ? v) Do farms of different sizes and/ or those belonging to different systems of farming as mentioned in iv) differ in their "access" to technology and to inputs ? vi) From that point of view, do farms of different sizes and/or of different farming systems differ in their adoption of modern technology and thereby also in the sharing of the benefits arising from it ? Analysis in Wider Context Needed It would appear reasonable to say that debates on all these issues remain inconclusive, partly because of the nature of the data used in the discussion and partly because of the procedures of analysis. In particular, the issue raised in iv) above has not received the attention it deserves, although the character of the debate on most of the other aspects is related to it and policy prescriptions also hinge vitally on it.5 During the last two decades, therefore, a number of problems relating to the scale factor in agriculture have been raised and discussed, although many unresolved issues still remain. But the discussion has been substantially restricted to static analysis, particularly relating to input utilization, production patterns and differentials in the adoption of technology. Even the theoretical issues that have emerged from the discussion, as for intance the interlinking of factor markets, have been confined to static problems.6 However, the scale factor may have greater impact on the long-term growth possibility of farms of different sizes which, in