Realist Methodology and the Articulation of Modes of Production (ص 277)

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Realist Methodology and the Articulation of Modes of Production (ص 277)

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relatively high farm incomes over a short period of time.
Salim Tamari has estimated that a 20 dunum sharecropping land
Plot brought in a net income of approximately $6,040 to
peasant families during 1978. (13) While this may seem very
high in terms of local wage levels, it should be remembered
that this is the collective income for a group of family
workers consisting of between 2~6 adult members.
When I interviewed sharecroppers in 1984 I found that,
particularly in the village of Zbeidat, a large number of
farmers had incurred very large debts, and they produced
bills and receipts to the region's largest landlord and
commission agent for between the equivalent of $3,000-9,000.
During this period farmers were making losses on the sale of
eggplants and tomatoes, their two most important vegetable
crops. (14) Moreover, during the 1986-87 season, the peasant
farmers in Zbeidat had accummulated debts of between 7,000-
9,000 Jordanian dinars (approximately US$21,000-27,.000).
With the increase in indebtedness and lack of profitability,
resident peasant households were beginning to reintroduce
secondary crops at the end of the normal agricultural season.
This practice diminished with the introduction of HYV's as
peasant farmers felt it was not worth the extra _ work,
particulary during profitable seasons, to produce secondary
crops which normally required a great deal of labour
involvement and was not particularly profitable vis-a-vis
HYV's. This was a classic case of diminishing marginal
returns. The main secondary crop produced is maize , which is
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