in low and lower middleincome countries on the other hand small and medium sized farms are significant also in terms of share of land and food production in lowincome countries farms smaller than hectares occupy about of the farmland and farms smaller than hectares about in lower middleincome countries these shares are about and respectively as can be observed in figure from lowder skoet and singh most farms are in east asia south asia and the pacific more than a third of the world s farmers live inthe people s republic of china herafter china and slightly less than a quarter live in india