Journal of Agricultural Economics and Development Vol. 5(3), pp. 045-057, September 2016 ISSN 2327-3151 ©2016 Academe Research Journals

Full Length Research Paper

Study on the feature of land and labor contracts between landlords and tenants in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan

Majid Khan¹* Puangkaew Lurhathaiopath² and Shusuke Matsushita²

¹Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba

²Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba.

*Corresponding author. E-mail: majidkhan_psf1@yahoo.com.

Accepted 30 July, 2016

Abstract

This study examines the present land tenancy arrangements and their long-term duration, which were manage informally in the landlord, tenant relationship. Also examines the relationship between each landlord and tenant in these tenancy contracts with their contractual parameters, then discuss the sole differences of the sample respondents in each contract, in comparison with famous previous agrarians research works in the field of land tenancy. The information were collected through base line survey in year 2014 from February 1st to March 16th. These information was based on three major growing crops Wheat, Sugar cane and Tobacco, which were grown in the cropping year 2013, from the selected three villages of district Swabi Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan. Mixed method were applied to explore the quantitative as well as qualitative significance of the selected 30 respondents in this research work, also discussed features, Age in (years), Education in (years), family labors (men) and Cultivated land size in (acre), as well as decision making behavior of the sampled respondents in these informal tenancy contracts. The finding of our study are long-term duration in tenancy contracts, which were recorded as, twenty one year’s maximum and minimum of four years and their four different contract types, which were Share, Fixed, Owner cultivation and mixture of both Share and Fixed. All these finding shows the differences of this research work from the others researches empirical works in shape of long-term duration and multiple contract between one tenant and different landlords. This study recommends that the government should take some initiative towards land reforms and make these land tenancy contracts in written form in the study area and in country as a whole, so that it would be better for both the landlords and tenants to know about their contract contractual formation clearly, especially for the landless laborers in the rural Pakistan, which will give secure tenure status and more decision power, then the tenants will work hard and invest more in the land, through which we will see improvement in agriculture production in the country as well as for the whole region, which will also play key role in future food security.

Key words: Land tenancy, labor contracts, landlords, tenants, Pakistan.