ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the production and sales of peasant households in the three villages during the three years of the panel study. Peasant household production is extremely labor-intensive. Although increasingly peasant households have obtained some types of mechanical equipment, their ability to maintain plots and care for animals depends on their ability to obtain household labor and to build personal helping networks. The most important figures are those pertaining to total weighted household agricultural production. Thus, this weighted figure is a good indicator of a household's ability to obtain both nonmonetary, that is, consumption and monetary advantages from production. The most labor-intensive aspect of peasant household production in Russian villages is the care of animals. This is also the type of physical capital that will have the greatest effect on enhancing advantages that a household possesses because of its human and social capital.
