around of them are below hectares and almost are below hectares but these small and mediumsized farms only account for a small share of the world s land the reasons include an absence of information at all for a number of countries a current farm count based on old census in low and middleincome likely to have seen an increase in farm population this pattern is largely due to the dominance of larger farms in highincome countries and upper middleincome countries in particular in latin america