Tenancy and resource use efficiency in agriculture/ by M. M. Islam and B. N . Banerjee

Resource use and land productivity has long been one of the most debates and controversial Issues. Discrepancy in classification of farms limits the comparability and generalised concluslons. Tenurial status i.e, the owner ship of cultivated land. affects the land productivity but has been a neglected aspect in this field of re search. The examines the present work thus possible relationship between ownership of land, resource endowment, resource utilisation and productivity.

There was no significant difference in cropping pattern between different triennial groups, the lower cropping intensity and lower yield associated with leased-in land compared to owned land irrespective of triennial group accounts for low productivity.

The divergence between existing and optimal net returns clearly demonstrates the scope of increasing net returns through optimal and reallocation of resources on owner-cum-tenant and pure tenant farms. While the pure owner farms have reached the near optimality level, the reallocation of land under various crops rotations will leave no surplus resources and Increase net returns marginally.
The present work suggests strong Panchyat based village communities.It pleads that Panchayats be empowered and entrusted to enlist the tenants and to distribute the farm requisites irrespective of ownershig of land.