Kikuchi, Masao

This paper summarizes the results of a survey conducted in 1978 in a rice village situated at the frontier of Laguna rice growing area with special reference to land tenancy, labor employment, rice production and income distribution. The study village shared characteristics common to the rice villages in Laguna and in the Philippines in general. In terms of land tenure systems, labor hiring institutions, labor absorption, technology adopted, and production structure as observed by the relative factor shares and production function, there were few differences in rice farming between this village and other typical rice villages in the country. A distinct feature as a frontier village is observed in its low share of landless farm laborers in the total village households. It is also found that the functional share of land in rice production was lower and that of labor higher in this marginal village than in villages at the center of the Laguna rice belt.