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Share-cropping arrangements are not the most common form of<br />
tenancy, because leasing land for growing food crops is of more frequent<br />
occurrence. No matter whether these 'period tenancies' are for one<br />
cropping sequence of two seasons (see Note 2) or for an annual tenure,<br />
payment is neither in produce nor in labour services but invariably in<br />
money.<br />
With regard to the period for which parties have entered into a<br />
tenancy-agreement, three groups can be distinguished:<br />
1. Tenancies for the lifetime of the farmer. Of these we encountered 11<br />
cases, invariably oftenants who, although having some type of family<br />
relationship to the Asasewura, were nevertheless required to pay a rent.<br />
It should be stressed, however, that in these cases no initial payment was<br />
demanded and annual rents did not exceed (in 1978) an amount of
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