Anatomy of a Peasant Economy Rice Village in the Philippines

HAYAMI in association with M. KIKUCHI, P E MOYA, L. M. BAMBO, and E.B. MARCANO

Penerbit : THE INTERNATIONAL RICE RESEARCH INSTITUTE

Tahun : 1978

the international rice research institute’s primary mission is to improve rice production and quality for the benefit of people in Asia and other rice producing countries. Our concern is not simply with rice yields, but also with their impact on the well-being of people both rural and urban and especially those with low incomes. 1RRI recently organized a program on the economic consequences of new rice technology to assess the broad influences of tech nological change on society. A major focus of the program is on economic and social changes at the village level. Analysis of the impact of new rice technology on the various facets of rural villages, such as employment and income distribution, requires considerably more information than mere input-output and cost-return relationships in rice farming. Typically, farmer households make decisions on production and con sumption simultaneously. In the village community, rice farming depends on such nonfarmer households as those of landlords and landless laborers. The analysis of the full impact of rice production technology on rural society in Asia requires data on the complex of economic activities of both farmer and non farmer households.

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