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In the upland villages the proportion of households in-
volved in the tenancy market is higher overall than in the low-
land especially in terms of the “tenant-in” category. Even in
Village VII (Malausma) where owner operators are extremely

predominant (± 63 percent, the highest among all villages)
and there are no landless-tenants, the proportion of “tenant-
in” households is still more than 20 percent. This pattern is
common in the upland because of the traditional practices
where tenancy is arranged between relatives. Being charac-
terized by a relatively low degree of landlessness (as has been
indicated in previous section), in the upland villages tenancy
relations mostly occurred among owners.
Overall, however, data in Table 6.11. suggest that many
more households (27 percent of all households) and owners
tend to lease in rather than lease out (the latter being 8.5 per-
cent of all households), with the implication that on average,
each “tenant-out” leases land to approximately three owning
or landless households.
Tenancy status is liable to change every season. It is
realized that in order to get a better picture of these changes,
data on tenancy covering several seasons would be neces-
sary. Having covered one year (two seasons) only, a longer

trend of changes cannot be presented. Nevertheless, to get
some idea of what changes occurred between the wet and the
dry season, it is worth looking at the changes between these
two seasons.
The figures on changes in tenancy status suggest, con-
trary to our expectations, that three categories were un-
changed (pure tenant; tenant-in-out; and “other”), and the ten-

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