Agricultural Tenancy and Interlinked Transactions - II

This article attempts to study the interlinked land, labour, credit and output contracts observed in Orissa in recent years. The extent of occurrence of these contracts and their modality are analysed. The applicability of the neoclassical and Marxist approaches to interlinkage is examined. This article appears in two parts. The first part examined the features of tenancy contracts, causes of their incidence and persistence and characteristics of lessors and lessees in the survey area. Tenancy is not an isolated phenomenon. It is to be studied in relation to transactions in other factor markets with which it is very often interlocked. Therefore, this, the second part deals with interlinked tenancy contracts.