Tenant+Farmers

A tenant farmer is a farmer who rents land from large land owners and pays their owner with a portion of their crops. A tenant farmer usually never leaves the lower cast and is stuck farming the land. Other details of tenant farming such as how much land is given, the living condition of the farmer and the amount of crop needed to pay depends on the contract.

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