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Comparing the two types of contract (share and rent)
among owners and among non owners, it appears that over-
all, most owners (74.5 percent) and most non owners (75.4
percent) were sharecroppers rather than renters (Appendix-

Table 6.9). In the non owner group, the dominance of share
contracts is clear in each village (except in Village VII where
landless tenants were indeed absent, and in Village I where
the two types of contract are evenly distributed); this is logi-
cal since share contacts require less cash capital than rent. In
the owner group, while share contracts stood out in each of
the upland villages, they varied in the lowland villages. How-
ever, even in the villages where renting was relatively more
common than share contracts (Village II and Village IV), the
proportions of owner sharecroppers was high enough (30 per-
cent and 23 percent respectively), indicating that they must
be the tiny owners. This is supported by the fact that the pro-
portion of owner tenant-in is highly concentrated in the less
than 0.5 ha ownership group, as will be described in the fol-
lowing sub-section.

5. Sawah Owned and Tenancy

When we compare between tenancy statuses in terms of
area of sawah owned, three major points can be noted. The
largest owning groups, that is the “owner operators” and the
“tenant-in” have the smallest average holdings (See last row,
Table 6.15). They were concentrated in the lowest classes of
sawah area owned (approximately 60 percent of operators
owned sawah below 0.25 ha). However, comparison between
these two groups indicate that the mean area of sawah owned

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