ABSTRACT
This chapter concerns the distribution of all factors of production and of income and the effects of that distribution on the productivity of agriculture per man and per unit of land. The principal evidence available concerning the distribution of land has to do with the relationship between landlords and their tenants, that is between men who owned considerable amounts of land but did not farm it themselves and men who owned little or no land but did farm. The issue of inequalities in land ownership and management are related to land reform, the cooperatives, and the communes of the post-1949 period. From the point of view, the key issue is whether inequalities in income, cultivated acreage and the distribution of other factors of production reduced or enhanced farm efficiency. The relationship between land tenancy and productivity does have particular relevance to certain aspects of the cooperative and commune organization.
