an arrangement, prevalent in many less-developed countries (LDCs) in which a worker works land, giving the landowner a fixed share of the output
A form of agricultural tenancy in which the tenant pays for use of the land with a predetermined share of his crop rather than with a cash rent
The act of being a tenant farmer, especially in the southern United States, who farms the land in exchange for a portion of the crops
an arrangement, prevalent in many less-developed countries, in which a worker works land, giving the landowner a fixed share of the output
In an agricultural lease, the agreement between the landowner and the tenant farmer to split the crop or the profit from its sale, actually sharing the crop (See agricultural lease)
farming someone else's land, where the farmer gives the landowner a proportion of the crop instead of money