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as well as the proportion of large farmers (owning above 0.5
ha) is higher in the owner operator group than in the tenant-in
group.
The second point is that the means of area of sawah owned

in both groups, that is, “owner tenant-in-out” and “owner
tenant-in-out” and “owner tenant-out” are high (0.81 ha and
0.80 ha respectively). Thirdly, owner non-operators were
highly concentrated in tiny land owning groups below 0.25
ha, but also a significantly large percentage of them belonged
to larger farmers (0.5 ha and above). The mean area of sawah
owned, therefore, falls in between the other groups mentioned
above.
When we compare classes of sawah area owned, it ap-
pears that in each class, pure owner operators were predomi-
nant (56 percent for all classes and more than 39 percent in
each class), especially for classes below half a hectare (See
Appendix-Table 6.10., column 1). Among these “tiny farm-
ers” (petani gurem, owning below 0.5 hectare) around one-
fourth also cultivated others land (owner-tenant-in), thus con-
stituting a much higher proportion than in the higher classes
of ownership (column 2). This is logical since tiny farmers tend
to enlarge their cultivation holdings. On the other side, larger

landowners i. e. owner groups of 0.5 ha and above, tend to
lease out part while operating the rest of their lands (see col-
umn 4 Appendix-Table 6.10.), thus becoming “owner opera-
tor tenant out”.

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