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- a proportionally larger part of the land is uncultivated and fallow
periods are longer;
.",.- a larger-proportion-is-{more}-permanently-plantedwith-perennialtree-crops;
- relatively more tenants on these lands.
If, with a view to testing these hypotheses on the effects of distance, or for
statistical reasons, we contrast the figures for the two nearby lands of
Odompem and Amoanda (N = 193)6 with those for two more distant
lands, Osekyerew and Edumenu (N = 63), the results are as follows:
Hypothesis 1: Table 16 shows that the difference on this score is very
striking. While almost half (46070) of all those cultivating on the nearer lands
were given farming rights because they were related to the landowning
families through their father, marriage or friendship, this holds only in one
out of six cases (16%) for the more distant lands.
Table 16:
Paternal Relati'l'es, In-laws and Friends on
More Nearby and More Distant Lands
Abs
The more nearby family lands 86
The more distant family lands 10
Total 96
0/0 N=
46 188
16 63
38 251
Hypothesis2: Of the total acreage of farmland surveyed and measured on
the more nearby family lands, as much as 87% was devoted to (annual)
foodcrops.
In Table 17 we see that this differs significantly from the more
distant lands where 52% of the planted area was under food crops.
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