Secondly, the strategy for agricultural modernisation should involve helping smallholder farmers to raise their yields and to produce more output for the market. This strategy can support inclusive growth and reduce poverty by raising farm incomes. Agricultural modernisation should not involve displacing smallholders to make room for large scale mechanised farming.
This would be extremely regressive and, given that large farms have much lower yields per acre than small farms, lead to lower agricultural output. Thirdly, the first step on the road to the modernisation of smallholder farming should be to encourage smallholders to adopt good agricultural practises, which can enable substantial gains in yields even without the use of high input farm technology.