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Landownership Tenancy, and ...

involved in non agricultural pursuits which make use of sur-
pluses generated in the agricultural sector. Clearly access to
sawah land through tenancy arrangements should pay major
role in determining the income earning strategies of the land-

less and households owning little sawah land. On the other
hand, both smaller and larger owners might be partly expected
to lease out land because of their ability to take advantage of
higher income earning activities outside agriculture, although
a range of other factors such as age of the household head,
control of family labor supply and village specific tenancy
patterns may also be expected to be of some significance.
One important question is the extent to which lowland
and upland (and inter village) differences in tenancy pattern
are related to contrasting patterns of labor market behavior.
From the baseline studies we know that in the lowland non
farm employment tends to be mainly in firm laboring activi-
ties whereas non agricultural activities predominate in up-
land villages. Although it is not possible to provide direct com-
parisons at this stage, changes in these patterns over the past
6–7 years, and their relationship to macro trends in employ-
ment, are of special interest.
Especially in light of lack of income data by employment

source, it is not possible to provide definitive answers to these
questions at this stage of the analysis. Nevertheless this
overview of interrelationships between sawah land ownership,
tenancy an employment should be able to suggest relevant
hypotheses which can be tested in the analysis of survey data.
The two major measures of employment structure
adopted in this section are “family income status” and major

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