tenant+farmer



A tenant farmer is somebody who rents land from a large landowner and pays them a portion of there crop. When the government does the land reforms which is land distributed to people. The peasants who don't get any land they are the ones that are the tenant farmers. They mostly stay very poor because they don't get to keep that much of the money that they do make.

Information provided by; World Cultures A Global Mosaic ch.9 sec.3 pg. 209 http://libinfo.uark.edu/SpecialCollections/ardiglib/leewilson/jpg/garden1.JPG